Building tension and suspense, sentence 15
Using "suddenly" again and again stops it being sudden; one surprise works better than ten.
Who acts: Using, reader, one surprise · What happens: use, stop, be, work
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 (Using, reader, one surprise), 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 | Using | use | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 stops | csubj |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 suddenly | punct |
| 3 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 1 Using | obj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 suddenly | punct |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 Using | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stops | cc |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 again | conj |
| 8 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sudden | nsubj |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 sudden | cop |
| 11 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stops | xcomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 works | punct |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 surprise | nummod |
| 14 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 works | nsubj |
| 15 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 stops | conj |
| 16 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 works | advmod |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 ten | case |
| 18 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 works | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stops | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | gerund | again | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suddenly=Patient | |||||
| 2 | stop | present | Using | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | is | gerund | reader | sudden property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | work | present | one surprise | than ten; well property | vn employment-95.3 «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:15.
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 ×2, R7-rel-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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