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title: A film starts as a script, the written plan of every scene and every… — How films are made: script, crew, sets, editing · tree and pragmatics
description: A film starts as a script, the written plan of every scene and every line, and then hundreds of people turn that paper into pictures and sound. Who acts: film, hundreds. A sentence of the lesson «How films are made: script, crew, sets, editing» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# How films are made: script, crew, sets, editing, sentence 0

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A film starts as a script, the written plan of every scene and every line, and then hundreds of people turn that paper into pictures and sound.

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**Who acts:** film, hundreds · **What happens:** start, write, turn, plan · **To what, where:** paper, pictures, scene

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How films are made: script, crew, sets, editing» of the arts 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, hundreds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:022-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing.lesson:0
# text = A film starts as a script, the written plan of every scene and every line, and then hundreds of people turn that paper into pictures and sound.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 022-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	script	script	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
20	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **start** | present | a film |  |  |  |  | as a script | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **write** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **turn** | present | hundreds of people | that paper |  | pictures and sound | then |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent paper=Theme into picture=Trajectory |
| 4 | **plan** |  |  | every scene and every line |  |  |  |  | nom plan «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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