--- title: Sam from Boston knew the secret: when his mum called his ghost story… — Building tension and suspense · tree and pragmatics description: Sam from Boston knew the secret: when his mum called his ghost story "wicked scary" ("wicked" means very in New England), he said, "I didn't say what the noise was." Who acts: Sam, mum, wicked, noise. 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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 (Sam, mum, wicked, noise), 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:6 # text = Sam from Boston knew the secret: when his mum called his ghost story "wicked scary" ("wicked" means very in New England), he said, "I didn't say what the noise was." # 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, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 from from ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Boston Boston PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advcl 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 ghost ghost NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 16 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 17 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 appos _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 21 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:appos 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 24 very very ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=37:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:":_ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 35 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 37 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 ccomp _ _ 38 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 37 ccomp _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 41 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ _ 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | past | Sam from Boston | the secret | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer secret=Stimulus | | 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | Sam's mum | Sam's ghost story | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | | 3 | **mean** | present | wicked | | | | | in New England | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in england=Attribute | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Sam | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past · do-support | Sam | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | the noise | | | | | | tree rules | 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:6`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Building tension and suspense, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/4/) - next →: [Building tension and suspense, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/)