--- title: The news mostly reports the worst and most urgent events, because th… — Bad news, protests and helping others · tree and pragmatics description: The news mostly reports the worst and most urgent events, because that is what feels important to report. Who acts: news, that. 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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Bad news, protests and helping others, sentence 9 The news mostly reports the worst and most urgent events, because that is what feels important to report. **Who acts:** news, that · **What happens:** report, be, feel · **To what, where:** worst events 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 (news, that), 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:9 # text = The news mostly reports the worst and most urgent events, because that is what feels important to report. # 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 ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 reports report VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 6 worst bad ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 10 amod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 9 advmod _ _ 9 urgent urgent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:amod 10 events event NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 because because SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 advcl _ _ 16 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 17 important important ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 report report VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advcl 20 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **report** | present | the news | the worst events | | | | mostly *property* | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent event=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | present | that | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **feel** | present | | | | | | important *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **report** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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: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): R5-strong ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Bad news, protests and helping others, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/8/) - next →: [Bad news, protests and helping others, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/)