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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 (missing child, police, public, safety rules), 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:15 # text = A missing child on the news is a rare case; police use the news so that the public can help, and the family safety rules still work. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 missing missing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 case case NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 police police NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 21 mark _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 fixed _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 public public NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 28 still still ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 10 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 missing child on the news | a rare case | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **use** | present | police | the news | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Patient | | 3 | **help** | can | the public | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **work** | present | the safety rules | | | | still | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:15`. **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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