--- title: Using "suddenly" again and again stops it being sudden; one surprise… — Building tension and suspense · tree and pragmatics description: Using "suddenly" again and again stops it being sudden; one surprise works better than ten. Who acts: Using, reader, one surprise. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/15/) [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/) / [Building tension and suspense](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/) / 15 # Building tension and suspense, sentence 15 Using "suddenly" again and again stops it being sudden; one surprise works better than ten. **Who acts:** Using, reader, one surprise · **What happens:** use, stop, be, work 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 (Using, reader, one surprise), 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:15 # text = Using "suddenly" again and again stops it being sudden; one surprise works better than ten. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Using use VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 csubj _ _ 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 3 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 1 obj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 again again ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 again again ADV RB _ 5 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 8 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 cop _ _ 11 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:ccomp 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 surprise surprise NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 16 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 15 advmod _ _ 17 than than ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 obl _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | gerund | | | | | again | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suddenly=Patient | | 2 | **stop** | present | Using | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **is** | gerund | reader | | | | | sudden *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **work** | present | one surprise | | | | | than ten; well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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:15`. **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 ×2, 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: [Building tension and suspense, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/14/) - next →: [Building tension and suspense, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/)