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title: Films and series are one of the great joys of family life: favourite… — Favourite films and series: spoilers, binge-watc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Films and series are one of the great joys of family life: favourite films watched ten times, movie nights, crying at sad endings, cheering at happy ones. Who acts: Films. A sentence of the lesson «Favourite films and series: spoilers, binge-watching, streaming and adverts» of the adult life course 
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# Favourite films and series: spoilers, binge-watching, streaming and adverts, sentence 0

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Films and series are one of the great joys of family life: favourite films watched ten times, movie nights, crying at sad endings, cheering at happy ones.

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**Who acts:** Films · **What happens:** be, watch, cry, cheer, joy · **To what, where:** one, favourite films, sad endings, family life

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Favourite films and series: spoilers, binge-watching, streaming and adverts» of the adult life 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 (Films), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:055-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts.lesson:0
# text = Films and series are one of the great joys of family life: favourite films watched ten times, movie nights, crying at sad endings, cheering at happy ones.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 055-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	Films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	series	series	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	joys	joy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
16	watched	watch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	movie	movie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	appos	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	endings	ending	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	cheering	cheer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	conj	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Films and series | one |  |  |  | of the great joys of family life and favourite films and movie nights | tree rules |
| 2 | **watch** | participle |  | favourite films and movie nights *not said here* |  |  | time |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  | sad endings |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at ending=Location |
| 4 | **cheer** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | at happy ones | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **joy** |  |  | family life |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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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