--- title: The news shows the most urgent and often the worst things happening… — Bad news, protests and helping others · tree and pragmatics description: The news shows the most urgent and often the worst things happening anywhere in the world, so it can feel as if everything is going wrong. Who acts: news, worst things, it, everything. 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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 (news, worst things, it, everything), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:032-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others.lesson:0 # text = The news shows the most urgent and often the worst things happening anywhere in the world, so it can feel as if everything is going wrong. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 032-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others.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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 6 advmod _ _ 6 urgent urgent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 8 often often ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 worst bad ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 amod _ _ 11 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 happening happen VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 13 anywhere anywhere ADV RB PronType=Ind 12 advmod _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 22 as as SCONJ IN _ 23 fixed _ _ 23 if if SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 26 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:ccomp 27 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | the news | the urgent | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent urgent=Recipient | | 2 | **happen** | gerund | the worst things | | | | | anywhere, often *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **feel** | can | it | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · progressive | everything | | | | | wrong *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:adult-life:032-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others.lesson:0`. **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: [Votes, parties and the people in charge, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/31-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge/19/) - next →: [Bad news, protests and helping others, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/)