--- title: Some films are slow on purpose; grown-ups may love a quiet film that… — Scary films, nightmares and sad endings · tree and pragmatics description: Some films are slow on purpose; grown-ups may love a quiet film that children find boring, and that is a difference in taste, not a fault. Who acts: films, grown ups, children, that. 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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, grown ups, children, that), 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:21 # text = Some films are slow on purpose; grown-ups may love a quiet film that children find boring, and that is a difference in taste, not a fault. # 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 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 films film NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 8 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 10 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 11 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 love love VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 obj _ _ 17 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 boring boring ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 difference difference NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 taste taste NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:conj 32 . . 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 | **is** | present | some films | | | purpose | | slow *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **love** | may | grown ups | a quiet film | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer film=Stimulus | | 4 | **find** | present | children | a quiet film | | | | boring *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic | | 5 | **is a** | present | that | a difference | | taste | | | 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:21`. **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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