--- title: Newsreaders speak slowly and look serious about deaths to show respe… — Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk abou… · tree and pragmatics description: Newsreaders speak slowly and look serious about deaths to show respect for the people who died and their families. Who acts: Newsreaders, people. 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 dependency tr --- [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/18/) [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/) / 18 # Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them, sentence 18 Newsreaders speak slowly and look serious about deaths to show respect for the people who died and their families. **Who acts:** Newsreaders, people · **What happens:** speak, look, show, die · **To what, where:** respect · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Newsreaders, people), 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:18 # text = Newsreaders speak slowly and look serious about deaths to show respect for the people who died and their families. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Newsreaders newsreader NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 speak speak VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 6 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 7 about about ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 deaths death NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 11 respect respect NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 15 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | Newsreaders | | | | | slowly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **look** | present | Newsreaders *not said here* | | | | | about deaths; serious *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about death=Theme | | 3 | **show** | to-infinitive | Newsreaders *not said here* | respect | | | | for the people | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent respect=Recipient | | 4 | **die** | past | the people | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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:18`. **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): R8-pos-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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