Building tension and suspense, sentence 13
An ellipsis (...) can make the reader pause and wait.
Who acts: ellipsis, reader · What happens: make, pause, wait
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 (ellipsis, 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ellipsis | det |
| 2 | ellipsis | ellipsis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | nsubj |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 ... | punct |
| 4 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 2 ellipsis | punct |
| 5 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 4 ... | punct |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | aux |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 reader | det |
| 9 | reader | reader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pause | nsubj |
| 10 | pause | pause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 make | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wait | cc |
| 12 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 pause | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | can | a ellipsis | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pause | infinitive | the reader | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wait | infinitive | the reader not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:13.
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): R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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