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title: When a film scares you, your body acts as if the danger were real: y… — Scary films, nightmares and sad endings · tree and pragmatics
description: When a film scares you, your body acts as if the danger were real: your heart races, your hands get sweaty, you jump. Who acts: film, body, danger, heart. A sentence of the lesson «Scary films, nightmares and sad endings» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# Scary films, nightmares and sad endings, sentence 2

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When a film scares you, your body acts as if the danger were real: your heart races, your hands get sweaty, you jump.

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**Who acts:** film, body, danger, heart, hands, you · **What happens:** scare, act, be, race, get, jump · **To what, where:** you

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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 (film, body, danger, heart), 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:2
# text = When a film scares you, your body acts as if the danger were real: your heart races, your hands get sweaty, you jump.
# 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): no change
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	scares	scare	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	acts	act	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	races	race	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
24	sweaty	sweaty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	jump	jump	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **scare** | present | a film | you |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
| 2 | **act** | present | your body |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | the danger |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **race** | present | heart |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **get** | present | your hands |  |  |  |  | sweaty *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **jump** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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): no change. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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