--- title: A gasp, a scream or a dropped cup are clues that something surprisin… — Prediction: what happens next · tree and pragmatics description: A gasp, a scream or a dropped cup are clues that something surprising has happened. Who acts: gasp, something. A sentence of the lesson «Prediction: what happens next» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/19-prediction-what-happens-next/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Prediction: what happens next](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/19-prediction-what-happens-next/) / 20 # Prediction: what happens next, sentence 20 A gasp, a scream or a dropped cup are clues that something surprising has happened. **Who acts:** gasp, something · **What happens:** drop, be, happen · **To what, where:** clues This is a sentence of the lesson «Prediction: what happens next» of the english 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 (gasp, something), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:019-prediction-what-happens-next.lesson:20 # text = A gasp, a scream or a dropped cup are clues that something surprising has happened. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 019-prediction-what-happens-next.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 gasp gasp NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 scream scream NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:appos 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 dropped drop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 9 cup cup NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 clues clue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 13 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 16 nsubj _ _ 14 surprising surprising ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 15 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 happened happen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:ccomp 17 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drop** | participle | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | a gasp and a scream or a dropped cup | clues | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **happen** | present · perfect | something | clues *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | 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:english:019-prediction-what-happens-next.lesson:20`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Prediction: what happens next, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/19-prediction-what-happens-next/19/) - next →: [Prediction: what happens next, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/19-prediction-what-happens-next/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/19-prediction-what-happens-next/)