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title: Films often change a book's story to fit the screen and the time; th… — Favourite films and series: spoilers, binge-watc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Films often change a book's story to fit the screen and the time; the film is a new telling and the book is still there. Who acts: Films, film, book. A sentence of the lesson «Favourite films and series: spoilers, binge-watching, streaming and adverts» of the adult life course of Mova's primary scho
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# Favourite films and series: spoilers, binge-watching, streaming and adverts, sentence 11

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Films often change a book's story to fit the screen and the time; the film is a new telling and the book is still there.

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**Who acts:** Films, film, book · **What happens:** change, fit, be · **To what, where:** story, screen, new telling

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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, film, book), 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:11
# text = Films often change a book's story to fit the screen and the time; the film is a new telling and the book is still there.
# 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	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	screen	screen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	telling	telling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	still	still	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | present | Films | a book's story |  |  |  | often *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient |
| 2 | **fit** | to-infinitive | Films *not said here* | the screen and the time |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent screen=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the film | a new telling |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | the book |  |  |  | still | there *property* | tree rules |

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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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