--- title: Films often use one city to pretend to be another, because filming t… — How films are made: script, crew, sets, editing · tree and pragmatics description: Films often use one city to pretend to be another, because filming there is cheaper or easier, and the crew change street signs so it looks like the right city. Who acts: Films, filming, crew, 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 (Films, filming, crew, film), 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:14 # text = Films often use one city to pretend to be another, because filming there is cheaper or easier, and the crew change street signs so it looks like the right city. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Films film NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 pretend pretend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 cop _ _ 10 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 7 xcomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 because because SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 13 filming film VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj 14 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:expl|HaikuPos=PRON:EX:PronType=Dem 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 cheaper cheap ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 advcl _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 crew crew NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:compound 23 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 24 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 signs sign NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 so so SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 29 like like ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 . . 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 | **use** | present | Films | one city | | | | often *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient | | 2 | **pretend** | to-infinitive | Films *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **film** | gerund | | | | there | | | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | filming | | | | | cheap *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | filming *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **change** | present | the crew | street signs | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Patient | | 7 | **look** | present | film | | | | | like the right city | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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:14`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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