--- title: Parents may switch off the news to protect children from scary pictu… — Bad news, protests and helping others · tree and pragmatics description: Parents may switch off the news to protect children from scary pictures, and they worry about it themselves. Who acts: Parents. A sentence of the lesson «Bad news, protests and helping others» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/10/) [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/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Bad news, protests and helping others](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/) / 10 # Bad news, protests and helping others, sentence 10 Parents may switch off the news to protect children from scary pictures, and they worry about it themselves. **Who acts:** Parents · **What happens:** switch off, protect, worry · **To what, where:** news, children, Parents This is a sentence of the lesson «Bad news, protests and helping others» of the adult life 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 (Parents), 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:10 # text = Parents may switch off the news to protect children from scary pictures, and they worry about it themselves. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 switch switch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 off off ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obl 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl 9 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 worry worry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 about about ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 19 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 16 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obj 20 . . 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 | **switch off** | may | Parents | the news | | | | | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Patient | | 2 | **protect** | to-infinitive | Parents *not said here* | | children | | | from scary pictures | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary from picture=Theme | | 3 | **worry** | present | Parents *= parent* | Parents *= parent* | | | | about news | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus | 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:10`. **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, 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. 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