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title: Once you know how a monster was made, it gets much less scary: watch… — Special effects and stunts · tree and pragmatics
description: Once you know how a monster was made, it gets much less scary: watch a behind-the-scenes clip and the beast is a man in a rubber suit having a cup of tea. Who acts: you, monster, man. A sentence of the lesson «Special effects and stunts» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# Special effects and stunts, sentence 3

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Once you know how a monster was made, it gets much less scary: watch a behind-the-scenes clip and the beast is a man in a rubber suit having a cup of tea.

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**Who acts:** you, monster, man · **What happens:** know, make, get, watch, be, have · **To what, where:** monster, scenes clip, man, rubber suit, cup · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, monster, man), 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:3
# text = Once you know how a monster was made, it gets much less scary: watch a behind-the-scenes clip and the beast is a man in a rubber suit having a cup of tea.
# 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	Once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	much	much	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	watch	watch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
18	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:det
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
22	scenes	scene	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	compound	_	_
23	clip	clip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	rubber	rubber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	suit	suit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
34	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **know** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **make** | past · passive |  | a monster |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **get** | present | monster |  |  |  |  | scary *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **watch** | infinitive |  | a scenes clip and the beast |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clip=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | present |  | a man |  | a rubber suit |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** | gerund | a man *not said here* | a cup of tea |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=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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**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.

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