--- title: A headline word like «Megxit» or «snub» makes a complicated choice s… — The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move… · tree and pragmatics description: A headline word like «Megxit» or «snub» makes a complicated choice sound simple and nasty. Who acts: headline word, complicated choice. A sentence of the lesson «The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move to America, an interview and a book» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/44-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book/23/) [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/) / [The royal family in the news: a weddin…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/44-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book/) / 23 # The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move to America, an interview and a book, sentence 23 A headline word like «Megxit» or «snub» makes a complicated choice sound simple and nasty. **Who acts:** headline word, complicated choice · **What happens:** make, sound · **To what, where:** complicated choice This is a sentence of the lesson «The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move to America, an interview and a book» 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 (headline word, complicated choice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:044-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book.lesson:23 # text = A headline word like «Megxit» or «snub» makes a complicated choice sound simple and nasty. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 044-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 headline headline NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 Megxit Megxit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 snub snub NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:JJ:Number=Sing 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 complicated complicated ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 choice choice NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl _ _ 17 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 nasty nasty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 12 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 | a headline word like Megxit or snub | a complicated choice | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset choice=Product | | 2 | **sound** | infinitive | a complicated choice *not said here* | | | | | simple *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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:044-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book.lesson:23`. **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): R8-pos-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. 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