--- title: A tabloid is a newspaper or magazine that sells by shocking headline… — Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that… · tree and pragmatics description: A tabloid is a newspaper or magazine that sells by shocking headlines and gossip about famous people; one ordinary photo plus dramatic words can become a whole story. Who acts: tabloid, newspaper magazine. A sentence of the lesson «Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that tells a story» of th --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that tells a story, sentence 8 A tabloid is a newspaper or magazine that sells by shocking headlines and gossip about famous people; one ordinary photo plus dramatic words can become a whole story. **Who acts:** tabloid, newspaper magazine · **What happens:** be, sell, become · **To what, where:** newspaper magazine, whole story 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 (tabloid, newspaper magazine), 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:8 # text = A tabloid is a newspaper or magazine that sells by shocking headlines and gossip about famous people; one ordinary photo plus dramatic words can become a whole story. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 tabloid tabloid NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det 5 newspaper newspaper NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 magazine magazine NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 sells sell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 shocking shocking ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 headlines headline NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 gossip gossip NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 about about ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 20 ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 photo photo NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ _ 22 plus plus CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 dramatic dramatic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nsubj 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 xcomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a tabloid | newspaper magazine | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **sell** | present | newspaper magazine | | | | | by shocking headlines and gossip about famous people | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **become** | can | a tabloid *not said here* | a whole story | | | | | 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:8`. **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. **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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