--- title: A spoiler tells the ending before someone has seen it; it is annoyin… — Favourite films and series: spoilers, binge-watc… · tree and pragmatics description: A spoiler tells the ending before someone has seen it; it is annoying, and spoiling on purpose is a small meanness that needs a "sorry". Who acts: spoiler, someone, spoiling, small meanness. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spoiler, someone, spoiling, small meanness), 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:12 # text = A spoiler tells the ending before someone has seen it; it is annoying, and spoiling on purpose is a small meanness that needs a "sorry". # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 spoiler spoiler NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 ending ending NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 before before SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 9 nsubj _ _ 8 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 annoying annoying ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 15 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 17 spoiling spoil VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:nsubj 18 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 meanness meanness NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 28 sorry sorry NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a spoiler | the ending | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ending=Recipient | | 2 | **see** | present · perfect | someone | spoiler | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | present | spoiler | | | | | annoying *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **spoil** | gerund | | | | purpose | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **is a** | present | spoiling | a small meanness | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **need** | present | a small meanness | a sorry | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sorry=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:055-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts.lesson:12`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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