--- title: Suspense is the delicious worry of not knowing yet: the reader holds… — Building tension and suspense · tree and pragmatics description: Suspense is the delicious worry of not knowing yet: the reader holds their breath because something might happen, and the writer's job is to make them wait. Who acts: Suspense, reader, something, job. 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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 (Suspense, reader, something, job), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:042-building-tension-and-suspense.lesson:0 # text = Suspense is the delicious worry of not knowing yet: the reader holds their breath because something might happen, and the writer's job is to make them wait. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 042-building-tension-and-suspense.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Suspense suspense NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 delicious delicious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 worry worry NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 knowing know VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 nmod _ _ 9 yet yet ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 reader reader NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 because because SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 19 nsubj _ _ 18 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 writer writer NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 . . 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 | Suspense | the delicious worry | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **know** | gerund | | | | | yet | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **hold** | present | the reader | their breath | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | | 4 | **happen** | might | something | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | the writer's job | | | | | make *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **wait** | infinitive | the writer's job *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **job** | | the writer | | | | | | nom job «act intransitive»: 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:english:042-building-tension-and-suspense.lesson:0`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Describing: senses, showing and precis…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/41-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words/16/) - next →: [Building tension and suspense, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/)