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title: Suspense is the feeling of waiting and worrying about what will happ… — Building tension and suspense · tree and pragmatics
description: Suspense is the feeling of waiting and worrying about what will happen next. Who acts: Suspense. 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 7

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Suspense is the feeling of waiting and worrying about what will happen next.

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**Who acts:** Suspense · **What happens:** be, wait, worry, happen · **To what, where:** feeling

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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 (Suspense), 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:7
# text = Suspense is the feeling of waiting and worrying about what will happen next.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Suspense	suspense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
6	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	worrying	worry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	conj	_	_
9	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
13	next	next	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 a** | present | Suspense | the feeling |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **worry** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **happen** | future |  |  |  |  |  | next *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «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:7`.

**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): 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/).

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