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title: For Titanic in 1997, the filmmakers built a large part of the ship a… — Special effects and stunts · tree and pragmatics
description: For Titanic in 1997, the filmmakers built a large part of the ship and used models, water tanks and computer effects instead of sinking a real ship. Who acts: filmmakers. A sentence of the lesson «Special effects and stunts» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Special effects and stunts, sentence 15

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For Titanic in 1997, the filmmakers built a large part of the ship and used models, water tanks and computer effects instead of sinking a real ship.

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**Who acts:** filmmakers · **What happens:** build, use, sink · **To what, where:** large part, models, real ship

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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 (filmmakers), 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:15
# text = For Titanic in 1997, the filmmakers built a large part of the ship and used models, water tanks and computer effects instead of sinking a real ship.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Titanic	Titanic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	1997	1997	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	filmmakers	filmmaker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	models	model	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	tanks	tank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	computer	computer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	effects	effect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=20:conj
24	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	26	mark	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	sinking	sink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	advcl	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **build** | past | the filmmakers | a large part of the ship |  |  |  | for Titanic in 1997 | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent part=Product for titanic=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **use** | past | the filmmakers *not said here* | models and water tanks and computer effects |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent model=Patient |
| 3 | **sink** | gerund | the filmmakers *not said here* | a real ship |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ship=Patient |

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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:15`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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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