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title: In black-and-white films, chocolate syrup was used as fake blood bec… — Special effects and stunts · tree and pragmatics
description: In black-and-white films, chocolate syrup was used as fake blood because it looked right on screen. Who acts: syrup. 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 12

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In black-and-white films, chocolate syrup was used as fake blood because it looked right on screen.

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**Who acts:** syrup · **What happens:** use, look · **To what, where:** chocolate syrup, black films

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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 (syrup), 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:12
# text = In black-and-white films, chocolate syrup was used as fake blood because it looked right on screen.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod
7	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	syrup	syrup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
19	right	right	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	screen	screen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	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 | **use** | past · passive |  | chocolate syrup |  | black films |  | as fake blood | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as blood=Attribute |
| 2 | **look** | past | syrup |  |  |  |  | on screen | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on screen=Theme |

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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:12`.

**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. **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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