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title: The film is pretend, but the feelings it makes are real, and they ca… — Scary films, nightmares and sad endings · tree and pragmatics
description: The film is pretend, but the feelings it makes are real, and they can stay with you after the screen goes dark. Who acts: film, it, feelings, Films. A sentence of the lesson «Scary films, nightmares and sad endings» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# Scary films, nightmares and sad endings, sentence 1

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The film is pretend, but the feelings it makes are real, and they can stay with you after the screen goes dark.

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**Who acts:** film, it, feelings, Films, screen · **What happens:** be, make, stay, go · **To what, where:** feelings

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Scary films, nightmares and sad endings» 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 (film, it, feelings, Films), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:056-scary-films-nightmares-and-sad-endings.lesson:1
# text = The film is pretend, but the feelings it makes are real, and they can stay with you after the screen goes dark.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 056-scary-films-nightmares-and-sad-endings.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	pretend	pretend	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	screen	screen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
24	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present | the film |  |  |  |  | pretend *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present | it | the feelings *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material feeling=Product |
| 3 | **is** | present | the feelings |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **stay** | can | Films *= film* |  |  |  |  | with you | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with you=Location |
| 5 | **go** | present | the screen |  |  |  |  | dark *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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