--- title: Grown-ups choose films by asking two questions: is it right for my a… — Scary films, nightmares and sad endings · tree and pragmatics description: Grown-ups choose films by asking two questions: is it right for my age, and am I in the mood for this feeling tonight? Who acts: Grown ups, ending, I. 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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 (Grown ups, ending, I), 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:10 # text = Grown-ups choose films by asking two questions: is it right for my age, and am I in the mood for this feeling tonight? # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 choose choose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 films film NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 by by SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 7 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 advcl _ _ 8 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:expl 13 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 parataxis _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 mood mood NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 det _ _ 26 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 tonight tonight NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **choose** | present | Grown ups | films | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent film=Theme | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | Grown ups *not said here* | two questions | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | | 4 | **is** | present | ending | | | | for my age | right *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | I | | | the mood | tonight | for this feeling | tree rules | 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:056-scary-films-nightmares-and-sad-endings.lesson:10`. **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): 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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