--- title: A take is one try at filming a shot; directors often film many takes… — How films are made: script, crew, sets, editing · tree and pragmatics description: A take is one try at filming a shot; directors often film many takes to get the acting, camera and light right together. Who acts: take, directors. 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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 (take, directors), 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:9 # text = A take is one try at filming a shot; directors often film many takes to get the acting, camera and light right together. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 take take NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 try try NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 at at SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 7 filming film VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 nmod _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 shot shot NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 directors director NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 12 often often ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 film film VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 14 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 takes take NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 acting acting NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 camera camera NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:appos 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=21:cc 23 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 right right ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 together together ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15: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 take | one try | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **film** | gerund | | a shot | | | | | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shot=Theme | | 3 | **film** | present | directors | many takes | | | | often *property* | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent take=Theme | | 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | directors *not said here* | the acting and camera and light | | | | together *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer acting=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:9`. **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, 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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