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description: Crying at a sad film or when a favourite character dies is normal and shows you care; sad endings can make a story feel real. Who acts: favourite character, Crying, you, sad endings. A sentence of the lesson «Favourite films and series: spoilers, binge-watching, streaming and adverts» of the adult l
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# Favourite films and series: spoilers, binge-watching, streaming and adverts, sentence 18

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Crying at a sad film or when a favourite character dies is normal and shows you care; sad endings can make a story feel real.

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**Who acts:** favourite character, Crying, you, sad endings, story · **What happens:** cry, die, be, show, care, make · **To what, where:** sad film, story · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (favourite character, Crying, you, sad endings), 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:18
# text = Crying at a sad film or when a favourite character dies is normal and shows you care; sad endings can make a story feel real.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:WRB:_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	dies	die	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	care	care	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=13:punct
19	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	endings	ending	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
26	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  | a sad film |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at film=Location |
| 2 | **die** | present | a favourite character |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **is** | present | Crying |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **show** | present | Crying *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **care** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **make** | can | sad endings | a story |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **feel** | infinitive | a story *not said here* |  |  |  |  | real *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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