Building tension and suspense, sentence 8
Tension builds when the writer slows the action and holds back information.
Who acts: Tension, writer · What happens: build, slow, hold back · To what, where: action, information
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 (Tension, writer), 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 | Tension | tension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 builds | nsubj |
| 2 | builds | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 slows | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 writer | det |
| 5 | writer | writer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 slows | nsubj |
| 6 | slows | slow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 builds | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 action | det |
| 8 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 slows | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 holds | cc |
| 10 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 slows | conj |
| 11 | back | back | PART | _ | 10 holds | compound:prt |
| 12 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 holds | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 builds | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present | Tension | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | slow | present | the writer | the action | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent action=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hold back | present | the writer not said here | information | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent information=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:8.
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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