--- title: Checking scary news again and again, especially late at night, keeps… — Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk abou… · tree and pragmatics description: Checking scary news again and again, especially late at night, keeps the worry going and makes nobody safer. Who acts: Checking, worry. 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 tree and the --- [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/20/) [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/) / 20 # Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them, sentence 20 Checking scary news again and again, especially late at night, keeps the worry going and makes nobody safer. **Who acts:** Checking, worry · **What happens:** check, keep, go, make · **To what, where:** scary news, worry, nobody 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 (Checking, worry), 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:20 # text = Checking scary news again and again, especially late at night, keeps the worry going and makes nobody safer. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Checking check VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:advcl 2 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 again again ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 again again ADV RB _ 4 conj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 especially especially ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 late late ADV RB Degree=Pos 1 advmod _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 13 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 worry worry NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:acl 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 19 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 18 obj _ _ 20 safer safe ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 xcomp _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **check** | gerund | | scary news | | | again | late *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme | | 2 | **keep** | present | Checking | the worry | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **go** | gerund | the worry *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **make** | present | Checking *not said here* | nobody | | | | safe *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nobody=Product | 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:20`. **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, R7-rel-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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