Building tension and suspense, sentence 2

Then a creak.", the whole class freezes, because short sentences slow time down and make every second feel important, like the ticking before a game show answer.

Who acts: whole class, short sentences, second · What happens: freeze, slow down, make, feel

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 (whole class, short sentences, second), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 creak	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 creak	det
3	creak	creak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 creak	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 creak	punct
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 creak	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 class	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 class	amod
9	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 freezes	nsubj
10	freezes	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 creak	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 make	punct
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 slow	mark
13	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sentences	amod
14	sentences	sentence	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 slow	nsubj
15	slow	slow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 make	conj
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 slow	obj
17	down	down	ADV	_	15 slow	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 make	cc
19	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 creak	parataxis
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 second	det
21	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 feel	nsubj
22	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 make	xcomp
23	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 feel	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ticking	punct
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 ticking	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ticking	det
27	ticking	ticking	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 make	obl
28	before	before	ADP	_	32 answer	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 answer	det
30	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 show	compound
31	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 answer	compound
32	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ticking	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 creak	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	freeze in a quote	present	the whole class			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	slow down in a quote	infinitive	short sentences	time	down property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	make in a quote	infinitive			like the ticking before a show answer	tree rules
4	feel in a quote	infinitive	every second		important property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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:2.

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, R6-punct-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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