--- title: "Based on a true story" means the film starts from something real, b… — Scary films, nightmares and sad endings · tree and pragmatics description: "Based on a true story" means the film starts from something real, but film makers change, add and invent a lot to make it exciting. Who acts: film, film makers. 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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 (film, film makers), 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:19 # text = "Based on a true story" means the film starts from something real, but film makers change, add and invent a lot to make it exciting. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 2 Based base VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 nsubj _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 11 obl _ _ 14 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 makers maker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 add add VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 invent invent VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 exciting exciting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **base** *in a quote* | participle | | | | a true story | | | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on story=Source | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **start** | present | the film | | | something | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **change** | present | film makers | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | film makers *not said here* | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **invent** | present | film makers *not said here* | a lot | | | | | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Result | | 7 | **make** | to-infinitive | film makers *not said here* | landing | | | | exciting *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | 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:19`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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