--- title: Sad films work the same way: a sad ending can make you cry or keep y… — Scary films, nightmares and sad endings · tree and pragmatics description: Sad films work the same way: a sad ending can make you cry or keep you thinking for days, and that is normal. Who acts: Sad films, sad ending, you, that. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/56-scary-films-nightmares-and-sad-endings/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Scary films, nightmares and sad endings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/56-scary-films-nightmares-and-sad-endings/) / 9 # Scary films, nightmares and sad endings, sentence 9 Sad films work the same way: a sad ending can make you cry or keep you thinking for days, and that is normal. **Who acts:** Sad films, sad ending, you, that · **What happens:** work, make, cry, keep, think, be · **To what, where:** same way, you 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 (Sad films, sad ending, you, 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:9 # text = Sad films work the same way: a sad ending can make you cry or keep you thinking for days, and that is normal. # 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 Sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 films film NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 ending ending NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl:relcl _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 cry cry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 thinking think VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 xcomp _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **work** | present | Sad films | the same way | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent way=Material | | 2 | **make** | can | a sad ending | you | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* | you | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | day | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | present | that | | | | | normal *property* | 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:9`. **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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/56-scary-films-nightmares-and-sad-endings/8/) - next →: [Scary films, nightmares and sad endings, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/56-scary-films-nightmares-and-sad-endings/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/56-scary-films-nightmares-and-sad-endings/)