--- title: A jump scare is a sudden picture or loud sound meant to make you jum… — Scary films, nightmares and sad endings · tree and pragmatics description: A jump scare is a sudden picture or loud sound meant to make you jump; it works even in cartoons and even when you know it is coming. Who acts: jump scare, you, scare. 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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 (jump scare, you, scare), 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:15 # text = A jump scare is a sudden picture or loud sound meant to make you jump; it works even in cartoons and even when you know it is coming. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 jump jump NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 scare scare NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 11 meant mean VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 jump jump VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 19 even even ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 even even ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 24 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 ccomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a jump scare | a sudden picture or loud sound | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | participle | | a sudden picture or loud sound *not said here* | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **jump** *not said to happen* | infinitive | you | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **work** | present | scare | | | | | in cartoons | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in cartoon=Theme | | 6 | **know** | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **come** | present · progressive | scare | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:15`. **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, R8-pos-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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