--- title: Tension makes the reader worry about what will happen next; a twist… — Putting it together: reading and writing like a… · tree and pragmatics description: Tension makes the reader worry about what will happen next; a twist is a surprise that changes the meaning of the story. Who acts: Tension, twist, surprise. A sentence of the lesson «Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/54-reading-and-writing-like-a-writer/8/) [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/) / [Putting it together: reading and writi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/54-reading-and-writing-like-a-writer/) / 8 # Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer, sentence 8 Tension makes the reader worry about what will happen next; a twist is a surprise that changes the meaning of the story. **Who acts:** Tension, twist, surprise · **What happens:** make, worry, happen, be, change, mean · **To what, where:** surprise, meaning, story This is a sentence of the lesson «Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer» 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 (Tension, twist, surprise), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:054-reading-and-writing-like-a-writer.lesson:8 # text = Tension makes the reader worry about what will happen next; a twist is a surprise that changes the meaning of the story. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 054-reading-and-writing-like-a-writer.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Tension tension NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det 4 reader reader NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 worry worry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 about about SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 nsubj _ _ 8 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl _ _ 10 next next ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 twist twist NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 surprise surprise NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 . . 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 | **make** | present | Tension | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **worry** | infinitive | Tension *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **happen** | future | | | | | | next *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | a twist | a surprise | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **change** | present | a surprise | the meaning of the story | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Patient | | 6 | **mean** | | | the story | | | | | nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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:054-reading-and-writing-like-a-writer.lesson:8`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Putting it together: reading and writi…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/54-reading-and-writing-like-a-writer/7/) - next →: [Putting it together: reading and writi…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/54-reading-and-writing-like-a-writer/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/54-reading-and-writing-like-a-writer/)