--- title: Many people enjoy being scared by a film because it is a thrill with… — Scary films, nightmares and sad endings · tree and pragmatics description: Many people enjoy being scared by a film because it is a thrill with no real danger, like a roller coaster; other people simply don't, and both are fine. Who acts: Many people, film, danger, both. 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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 (Many people, film, danger, both), 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:12 # text = Many people enjoy being scared by a film because it is a thrill with no real danger, like a roller coaster; other people simply don't, and both are fine. # 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 ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 enjoy enjoy VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 scared scare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 xcomp _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 thrill thrill NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 advcl _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 17 det _ _ 16 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 like like ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 roller roller NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 coaster coaster NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 26 simply simply ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 33 nsubj _ _ 32 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 34 . . 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 | **enjoy** | present | Many people | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **scare** | gerund · passive | a film | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is a** | present | danger | a thrill and a roller coaster | | | | with no real danger | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | both | | | | | fine *property* | 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: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): R7-rel-agree ×1. **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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