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title: Many films are adaptations of books, comics or games, and people arg… — How films are made: script, crew, sets, editing · tree and pragmatics
description: Many films are adaptations of books, comics or games, and people argue whether the book or the film is better. Who acts: Many films, people, book. A sentence of the lesson «How films are made: script, crew, sets, editing» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# How films are made: script, crew, sets, editing, sentence 11

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Many films are adaptations of books, comics or games, and people argue whether the book or the film is better.

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**Who acts:** Many films, people, book · **What happens:** be, argue · **To what, where:** adaptations · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Many films, people, book), 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:11
# text = Many films are adaptations of books, comics or games, and people argue whether the book or the film is better.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
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	adaptations	adaptation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	comics	comic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	argue	argue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	ccomp	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is a** | present | Many films | adaptations |  |  |  | of books and comics or games | tree rules |
| 2 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | the book or the film |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |

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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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×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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