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title: A big film can need hundreds or even thousands of people, and the cr… — How films are made: script, crew, sets, editing · tree and pragmatics
description: A big film can need hundreds or even thousands of people, and the credits at the end list them all. Who acts: big film, credits. 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 pragmatics of every
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# How films are made: script, crew, sets, editing, sentence 5

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A big film can need hundreds or even thousands of people, and the credits at the end list them all.

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**Who acts:** big film, credits · **What happens:** need, list · **To what, where:** hundreds, people

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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 (big film, credits), 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:5
# text = A big film can need hundreds or even thousands of people, and the credits at the end list them all.
# 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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	even	even	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	credits	credit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det
18	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	list	list	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	nmod:unmarked	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | can | a big film | hundreds or thousands of people |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hundred=Theme |
| 2 | **list** | present | the credits at the end | people |  |  |  |  | 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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**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:5`.

**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. **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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