--- title: It ate the teacher" is over before we can be scared, and "The ghost… — Building tension and suspense · tree and pragmatics description: It ate the teacher" is over before we can be scared, and "The ghost appeared, chased them, and they escaped" squashes a whole chase into one breath. Who acts: monster, teacher, we, ghost. A sentence of the lesson «Building tension and suspense» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Building tension and suspense, sentence 4 It ate the teacher" is over before we can be scared, and "The ghost appeared, chased them, and they escaped" squashes a whole chase into one breath. **Who acts:** monster, teacher, we, ghost, sentences · **What happens:** eat, be, appear, chase, escape, squash · **To what, where:** teacher, sentences, whole chase, one breath 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 (monster, teacher, we, ghost), 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:4 # text = It ate the teacher" is over before we can be scared, and "The ghost appeared, chased them, and they escaped" squashes a whole chase into one breath. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 over over ADV RB _ 4 acl _ _ 8 before before SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 9 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 cop _ _ 12 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 advcl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 16 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 ghost ghost NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 chased chase VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 escaped escape VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 27 squashes squash VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 chase chase NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 into into ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | past | monster | the teacher | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teacher=Patient | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the teacher *not said here* | | | | | over *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | can | we | | | | | scared *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **appear** | past | the ghost | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **chase** | past | the ghost *not said here* | sentences *= sentence* | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 6 | **escape** | past | sentences *= sentence* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **squash** *in a quote* | present | monster *not said here* | a whole chase | | one breath | | | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chase=Theme into breath=Destination | 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:4`. **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): R6-punct-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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/3/) - next →: [Building tension and suspense, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/)