--- title: Some films are made to look like real news or real recordings, but t… — Scary films, nightmares and sad endings · tree and pragmatics description: Some films are made to look like real news or real recordings, but they are still stories; a real alien landing would be on every proper news channel. Who acts: films, real alien landing. 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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 (films, real alien landing), 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:18 # text = Some films are made to look like real news or real recordings, but they are still stories; a real alien landing would be on every proper news channel. # 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 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 films film NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 recordings recording NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 still still ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 alien alien ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 23 landing landing NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 24 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 cop _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 30 det _ _ 28 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 channel channel NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 31 . . 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 | **make** | present · passive | | some films | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | some films *not said here* | | | | | like real news or real recordings | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **is a** | present | Films *= film* | stories | | | still | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | would | a real alien landing | | | every proper news channel | | | 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:18`. **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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