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title: "Sus" is short for suspicious; in New England "wicked" means very. — Building tension and suspense · tree and pragmatics
description: "Sus" is short for suspicious; in New England "wicked" means very. Who acts: Sus, wicked. 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 17

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"Sus" is short for suspicious; in New England "wicked" means very.

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**Who acts:** Sus, wicked · **What happens:** be, mean

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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 (Sus, wicked), 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:17
# text = "Sus" is short for suspicious; in New England "wicked" means very.
# 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): no change
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Sus	sus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	suspicious	suspicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	New	New	PROPN	NNP	_	11	flat	_	_
11	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nsubj	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | present | Sus |  |  |  |  | for suspicious; short *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | wicked |  |  |  |  | in New England | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in england=Attribute |

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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:17`.

**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): no change. **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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