Building tension and suspense, sentence 9
Short sentences and one-word sentences can slow a moment and make it feel tense.
Who acts: Short sentences, information · What happens: slow, make, feel · To what, where: 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 (Short sentences, information), 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 | Short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sentences | amod |
| 2 | sentences | sentence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 slow | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sentences | cc |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 word | nummod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sentences | compound |
| 7 | sentences | sentence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sentences | conj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 slow | aux |
| 9 | slow | slow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 moment | det |
| 11 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 slow | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 make | cc |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 slow | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 make | obj |
| 15 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 make | xcomp |
| 16 | tense | tense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 feel | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 slow | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slow | can | Short sentences and word sentences | moment | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | infinitive | Short sentences and word sentences not said here | information | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | feel | infinitive | information not said here | tense 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:9.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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