--- title: A cut is a change from one shot to the next; studies of Hollywood fi… — How films are made: script, crew, sets, editing · tree and pragmatics description: A cut is a change from one shot to the next; studies of Hollywood films report that shots have got shorter over the decades. Who acts: cut, studies, shots. 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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 (cut, studies, shots), 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:13 # text = A cut is a change from one shot to the next; studies of Hollywood films report that shots have got shorter over the decades. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cut cut NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 shot shot NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 nmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 studies study NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 Hollywood Hollywood PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 films film NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 17 report report VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 shots shot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 20 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 ccomp _ _ 22 shorter short ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 xcomp _ _ 23 over over ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 decades decade NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a cut | a change | | one shot to the next | | | tree rules | | 2 | **report** | present | studies of Hollywood films | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **get** | present · perfect | shots | | | | | short *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **study** | | | Hollywood films | | | | | nom study «act transitive»: of=patient | 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:arts:022-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing.lesson:13`. **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): R7-rel-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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