--- title: A storyboard is a plan made of pictures in boxes, like a comic; it s… — Planning before writing · tree and pragmatics description: A storyboard is a plan made of pictures in boxes, like a comic; it suits young writers and anyone who thinks in pictures, and film makers plan their films with storyboards too. Who acts: storyboard, film makers, makers. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storyboard, film makers, makers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:039-planning-before-writing.lesson:10 # text = A storyboard is a plan made of pictures in boxes, like a comic; it suits young writers and anyone who thinks in pictures, and film makers plan their films with storyboards too. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 039-planning-before-writing.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 storyboard storyboard NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 made made VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 boxes box NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 comic comic NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 suits suit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 18 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 writers writer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 19 conj _ _ 22 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 makers maker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 plan plan VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 31 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 films film NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 storyboards storyboard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 35 too too ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a storyboard | a plan | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **made** | participle | | a plan *not said here* | | | | of pictures in boxes; like a comic | tree rules | | 3 | **suit** | present | storyboard | young writers | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present | | | | pictures | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **plan** | present | film makers | makers's films | | | | with storyboards | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent film=Topic | | 6 | **film** | | makers *= maker* | | | | | | nom film «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. 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