Building tension and suspense, sentence 3
Showing everything at once kills it: "There was a monster.
Who acts: Showing, monster · What happens: show, kill, be · To what, where: everything, class · 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 (Showing, monster), 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 | Showing | show | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 kills | csubj |
| 2 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 1 Showing | obj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | fixed |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 kills | advmod |
| 5 | kills | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 kills | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 kills | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 was | punct |
| 9 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kills | parataxis |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 monster | det |
| 12 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 was | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kills | 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 | show | gerund | everything | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | kill | present | Showing | class | once property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | be in a quote | past | a monster | there | 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:3.
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): no change. 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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