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title: Short sentences and one-word sentences can slow a moment and make it… — Building tension and suspense · tree and pragmatics
description: Short sentences and one-word sentences can slow a moment and make it feel tense. Who acts: Short sentences, information. 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 9

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Short sentences and one-word sentences can slow a moment and make it feel tense.

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**Who acts:** Short sentences, information · **What happens:** slow, make, feel · **To what, where:** information

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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 (Short sentences, information), 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:9
# text = Short sentences and one-word sentences can slow a moment and make it feel tense.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sentences	sentence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	sentences	sentence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	slow	slow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	tense	tense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **slow** | can | Short sentences and word sentences |  |  |  | moment |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | infinitive | Short sentences and word sentences *not said here* | information |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **feel** | infinitive | information *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tense *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:9`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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