Building tension and suspense, sentence 14
A cliffhanger ends a chapter or episode at a tense moment, so the reader must read on.
Who acts: cliffhanger, reader · What happens: end, read on · To what, where: chapter
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 (cliffhanger, 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 | 2 cliffhanger | det |
| 2 | cliffhanger | cliffhanger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ends | nsubj |
| 3 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 chapter | det |
| 5 | chapter | chapter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ends | obj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 episode | cc |
| 7 | episode | episode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chapter | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 moment | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 moment | det |
| 10 | tense | tense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 moment | amod |
| 11 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ends | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 read | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 read | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 reader | det |
| 15 | reader | reader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 read | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 read | aux |
| 17 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ends | parataxis |
| 18 | on | on | ADV | _ | 17 read | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ends | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | a cliffhanger | a chapter or episode | moment | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality chapter=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | read on | must | the reader | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:14.
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): R5-strong ×1, 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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