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title: A scary film makes the body react as if the danger were real, with a… — Scary films, nightmares and sad endings · tree and pragmatics
description: A scary film makes the body react as if the danger were real, with a racing heart and quick breathing, even though you are safe. Who acts: scary film, body, danger, you. A sentence of the lesson «Scary films, nightmares and sad endings» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# Scary films, nightmares and sad endings, sentence 11

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A scary film makes the body react as if the danger were real, with a racing heart and quick breathing, even though you are safe.

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**Who acts:** scary film, body, danger, you · **What happens:** make, react, be

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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 (scary film, body, danger, you), 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:11
# text = A scary film makes the body react as if the danger were real, with a racing heart and quick breathing, even though you are safe.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	react	react	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	racing	racing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	breathing	breathing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	even	even	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
24	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
28	.	.	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 | **make** | present | a scary film |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **react** | infinitive | the body |  |  |  |  | with a racing heart and quick breathing | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with heart=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | past | the danger |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | safe *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): 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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