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title: In the 1933 film King Kong the giant gorilla was a small model moved… — Special effects and stunts · tree and pragmatics
description: In the 1933 film King Kong the giant gorilla was a small model moved by hand a tiny bit at a time. Who acts: giant gorilla, small model. A sentence of the lesson «Special effects and stunts» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Special effects and stunts, sentence 10

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In the 1933 film King Kong the giant gorilla was a small model moved by hand a tiny bit at a time.

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**Who acts:** giant gorilla, small model · **What happens:** be, move · **To what, where:** small model, tiny bit

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Special effects and stunts» 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 (giant gorilla, small model), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:025-special-effects-and-stunts.lesson:10
# text = In the 1933 film King Kong the giant gorilla was a small model moved by hand a tiny bit at a time.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 025-special-effects-and-stunts.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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	1933	1933	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Kong	Kong	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	gorilla	gorilla	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	model	model	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
14	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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** | past | the giant gorilla | a small model |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **move** | participle | a small model *not said here* | a tiny bit at a time |  |  |  | by hand | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by hand=Trajectory |

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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:025-special-effects-and-stunts.lesson:10`.

**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): no change. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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