--- title: Some years ago some British newspaper journalists secretly listened… — Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that… · tree and pragmatics description: Some years ago some British newspaper journalists secretly listened to famous people's phone messages, which is against the law; they were caught, and it became a huge scandal. Who acts: British newspaper journalists, clip. A sentence of the lesson «Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that te --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/46-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo/17/) [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/) / [Tabloids, «sources close to» and the p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/46-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo/) / 17 # Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that tells a story, sentence 17 Some years ago some British newspaper journalists secretly listened to famous people's phone messages, which is against the law; they were caught, and it became a huge scandal. **Who acts:** British newspaper journalists, clip · **What happens:** listen, catch, become · **To what, where:** journalists, huge scandal This is a sentence of the lesson «Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that tells a story» 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 (British newspaper journalists, clip), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:046-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo.lesson:17 # text = Some years ago some British newspaper journalists secretly listened to famous people's phone messages, which is against the law; they were caught, and it became a huge scandal. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 046-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:obl:unmarked 3 ago ago ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod 4 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 7 det _ _ 5 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 newspaper newspaper NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 journalists journalist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 8 secretly secretly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 listened listen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 11 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod:poss _ _ 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 messages message NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 against against ADP IN _ 15 acl:relcl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=25:cc 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 scandal scandal NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 xcomp _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **listen** | past | some British newspaper journalists | | | | | to famous people's phone messages; ago, secretly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to message=Theme | | 2 | **catch** | past · passive | | journalists *= journalist* | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **become** | past | clip | a huge scandal | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:adult-life:046-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo.lesson:17`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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