--- title: Plane crashes and terror attacks are on the news because they are ve… — Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk abou… · tree and pragmatics description: Plane crashes and terror attacks are on the news because they are very rare; millions of flights land safely every day. Who acts: Plane crashes, millions. A sentence of the lesson «Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/14/) [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/) / [Scary news: wars, disasters and how to…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/) / 14 # Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them, sentence 14 Plane crashes and terror attacks are on the news because they are very rare; millions of flights land safely every day. **Who acts:** Plane crashes, millions · **What happens:** be, land · **To what, where:** news This is a sentence of the lesson «Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them» 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 (Plane crashes, millions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:051-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them.lesson:14 # text = Plane crashes and terror attacks are on the news because they are very rare; millions of flights land safely every day. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 051-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them.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): no change 1 Plane plane NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 crashes crash NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 terror terror NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 attacks attack NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 10 because because SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 very very ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 flights flight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 19 land land VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 20 safely safely ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 22 det _ _ 22 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Plane crashes and terror attacks | | | the news | | rare *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **land** | present | millions of flights | | | | day | safely *property* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:051-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them.lesson:14`. **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): no change. **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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