--- title: Vivid example: in a kitchen in Manchester the six o'clock news shows… — Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk abou… · tree and pragmatics description: Vivid example: in a kitchen in Manchester the six o'clock news shows smoke over a city and the word "missiles". Who acts: o'clock news. 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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them, sentence 3 Vivid example: in a kitchen in Manchester the six o'clock news shows smoke over a city and the word "missiles". **Who acts:** o'clock news · **What happens:** show · **To what, where:** smoke, city 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 (o'clock news), 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:3 # text = Vivid example: in a kitchen in Manchester the six o'clock news shows smoke over a city and the word "missiles". # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Vivid vivid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Manchester Manchester PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 o'clock o'clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 14 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 over over ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 missiles missile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 appos _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | the o'clock news | smoke | | a city and the word | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent smoke=Recipient | 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:3`. **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): R6-punct-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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