Building tension and suspense, sentence 4

It ate the teacher" is over before we can be scared, and "The ghost appeared, chased them, and they escaped" squashes a whole chase into one breath.

Who acts: monster, teacher, we, ghost, sentences · What happens: eat, be, appear, chase, escape, squash · To what, where: teacher, sentences, whole chase, one breath

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 (monster, teacher, we, ghost), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 teacher	det
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 over	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 over	cop
7	over	over	ADV	_	4 teacher	acl
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 scared	mark
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 scared	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 scared	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 scared	cop
12	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ate	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 appeared	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 appeared	cc
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 appeared	punct
16	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ghost	det
17	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 appeared	nsubj
18	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ate	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 chased	punct
20	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 appeared	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 chased	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 escaped	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 escaped	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 escaped	nsubj
25	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ate	conj
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 squashes	punct
27	squashes	squash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 ate	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 chase	det
29	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 chase	amod
30	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 squashes	obj
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 breath	case
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 breath	nummod
33	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 squashes	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ate	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat	past	monster	the teacher			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teacher=Patient
2	is in a quote	present	the teacher not said here			over property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	can	we			scared property	tree rules
4	appear	past	the ghost				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	chase	past	the ghost not said here	sentences = sentence			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	escape	past	sentences = sentence				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	squash in a quote	present	monster not said here	a whole chase	one breath		vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chase=Theme into breath=Destination

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:4.

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): 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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