--- title: Old black-and-white films were made before colour film was common; m… — Scary films, nightmares and sad endings · tree and pragmatics description: Old black-and-white films were made before colour film was common; many are still loved and are worth watching with someone who remembers them. Who acts: colour film. 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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 (colour film), 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:23 # text = Old black-and-white films were made before colour film was common; many are still loved and are worth watching with someone who remembers them. # 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 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 root _ _ 2 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 6 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 films film NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 before before SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 colour colour ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 advcl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 16 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 18 still still ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 loved love VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 worth worth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 23 watching watch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 xcomp _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 23 obl _ _ 26 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 remembers remember VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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** | past · passive | | white films | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **is** | past | colour film | | | | | common *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **love** | present · passive | | many | | | still | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | worth *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **watch** | gerund | | | | | | with someone | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **remember** | present | | Films *= film* | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Theme | 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:23`. **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/). - ← previous: [Scary films, nightmares and sad endings, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/56-scary-films-nightmares-and-sad-endings/22/) - next →: [Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Austra…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/57-age-ratings-and-why-they-exist/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/56-scary-films-nightmares-and-sad-endings/)