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title: Repetition can build suspense and make time feel slow. — Author's choices: why this word, why this way · tree and pragmatics
description: Repetition can build suspense and make time feel slow. Who acts: Repetition, time. A sentence of the lesson «Author's choices: why this word, why this way» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Author's choices: why this word, why this way, sentence 18

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Repetition can build suspense and make time feel slow.

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**Who acts:** Repetition, time · **What happens:** build, make, feel · **To what, where:** suspense

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Author's choices: why this word, why this way» 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 (Repetition, time), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:021-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way.lesson:18
# text = Repetition can build suspense and make time feel slow.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 021-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way.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	Repetition	repetition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	suspense	suspense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
8	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **build** | can | Repetition | suspense |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset suspense=Product |
| 2 | **make** | infinitive | time |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **feel** | infinitive | time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | slow *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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): 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.

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