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title: An ellipsis (...) can make the reader pause and wait. — Building tension and suspense · tree and pragmatics
description: An ellipsis (...) can make the reader pause and wait. Who acts: ellipsis, reader. A sentence of the lesson «Building tension and suspense» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Building tension and suspense, sentence 13

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An ellipsis (...) can make the reader pause and wait.

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**Who acts:** ellipsis, reader · **What happens:** make, pause, wait

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Building tension and suspense» 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 (ellipsis, reader), 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:13
# text = An ellipsis (...) can make the reader pause and 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ellipsis	ellipsis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
4	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_
5	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	pause	pause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **make** | can | a ellipsis |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pause** | infinitive | the reader |  |  |  |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wait** | infinitive | the reader *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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: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): R8-pos-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/).

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