Building tension and suspense, sentence 12

A rhetorical question, such as "What was behind the door?", is asked for effect, not for an answer; it makes the reader wonder with the character.

Who acts: rhetorical question, question, reader · What happens: be, ask, make, wonder · To what, where: door, rhetorical question, reader · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Building tension and suspense» of the english course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rhetorical question, question, reader), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 question	det
2	rhetorical	rhetorical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 question	amod
3	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 asked	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 door	punct
5	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ	12 door	mark
6	as	as	ADP	_	5 such	fixed
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 door	punct
8	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 door	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 door	cop
10	behind	behind	ADP	_	12 door	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 door	det
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 question	acl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 door	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 door	punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 question	punct
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 asked	aux:pass
17	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 effect	case
19	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 asked	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 answer	punct
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 answer	advmod
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 answer	case
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 answer	det
24	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 effect	conj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 makes	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 makes	nsubj
27	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 asked	parataxis
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 reader	det
29	reader	reader	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 makes	obj
30	wonder	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 makes	xcomp
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 character	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 character	det
33	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wonder	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 asked	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	a rhetorical question		the door		tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	present · passive		a rhetorical question		for effect and a answer	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	make	present	question	the reader			tree rules
4	wonder speech: ask	infinitive	the reader not said here			with the character	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:english:042-building-tension-and-suspense.lesson:12.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×2. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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