--- title: Asking "what made it scary?" or "what did it look like?" turns a pla… — Describing: senses, showing and precise words · tree and pragmatics description: Asking "what made it scary?" or "what did it look like?" turns a plain statement into description. Who acts: simile. A sentence of the lesson «Describing: senses, showing and precise words» 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/41-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words/13/) [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/) / [Describing: senses, showing and precis…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/41-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words/) / 13 # Describing: senses, showing and precise words, sentence 13 Asking "what made it scary?" or "what did it look like?" turns a plain statement into description. **Who acts:** simile · **What happens:** ask, make, look, turn · **To what, where:** simile, plain statement, description · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Describing: senses, showing and precise words» 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 (simile), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:041-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words.lesson:13 # text = Asking "what made it scary?" or "what did it look like?" turns a plain statement into description. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 041-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words.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, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 nsubj _ _ 4 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 11 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 14 obl _ _ 12 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj 15 like like ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ 18 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 plain plain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 statement statement NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 into into ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 description description NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **make** *in a quote* | past | | simile | | | | scary *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material it=Product | | 3 | **look** *in a quote* | past · do-support | simile | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **turn** | present | | a plain statement | | description | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent statement=Theme into description=Trajectory | 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:041-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words.lesson:13`. **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, R6-punct-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. 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