--- title: Boxers' insults at a press conference are "trash talk", a show to se… — Viral rumours, cancellations, fakes and apologies · tree and pragmatics description: Boxers' insults at a press conference are "trash talk", a show to sell tickets; that does not make insults okay at school. Who acts: insults, that, Boxers. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (insults, that, Boxers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:047-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies.lesson:13 # text = Boxers' insults at a press conference are "trash talk", a show to sell tickets; that does not make insults okay at school. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 047-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies.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 1 Boxers boxer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 ' 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 insults insult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 press press NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 conference conference NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 10 trash trash NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 show show NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 sell sell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl _ _ 18 tickets ticket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 20 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 nsubj _ _ 21 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 24 insults insult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 okay okay ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:obl 28 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Boxers's insults at a press conference | a show | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **sell** | to-infinitive | | tickets | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ticket=Theme | | 3 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | that | insults | | | | okay *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset insult=Product | | 4 | **insult** | | Boxers | | | a press conference | | | nom insult «communication transitive»: poss=agent at=place | 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:047-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies.lesson:13`. **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. **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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