--- title: Rewatching a scary film often makes it less scary, because you know… — Scary films, nightmares and sad endings · tree and pragmatics description: Rewatching a scary film often makes it less scary, because you know what is coming and your body stops being surprised. Who acts: Rewatching, you, body. 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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 (Rewatching, you, body), 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:22 # text = Rewatching a scary film often makes it less scary, because you know what is coming and your body stops being surprised. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Rewatching rewatch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 often often ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 9 advmod _ _ 9 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 14 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 16 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 ccomp _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj 21 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 aux:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:cop 22 surprised surprise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 23 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rewatch** | gerund | | a scary film | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | present | Rewatching | taste | | | | often, scary *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 3 | **know** | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **come** | present · progressive | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **stop** | present | your body | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **surprise** | gerund · passive | your body *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | 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:22`. **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 ×1, 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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