--- title: Wars, disasters and accidents on the news are real, but most happen… — Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk abou… · tree and pragmatics description: Wars, disasters and accidents on the news are real, but most happen far away; finding the place on a map shrinks the fear to its proper size. Who acts: Wars, finding. 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 w --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them, sentence 9 Wars, disasters and accidents on the news are real, but most happen far away; finding the place on a map shrinks the fear to its proper size. **Who acts:** Wars, finding · **What happens:** be, happen, find, shrink · **To what, where:** place, map, fear 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 (Wars, finding), 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:9 # text = Wars, disasters and accidents on the news are real, but most happen far away; finding the place on a map shrinks the fear to its proper size. # 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 Wars war NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 disasters disaster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 accidents accident NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 14 advmod _ _ 14 happen happen VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 15 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 16 advmod _ _ 16 away away ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 18 finding find VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 csubj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 map map NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 24 shrinks shrink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 10 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 | Wars on the news and disasters and accidents | | | | | real *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **happen** | present | Wars on the news and disasters and accidents *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **find** | gerund | | the place | | a map | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic | | 4 | **shrink** | present | finding | the fear | | | | to fear's proper size *result* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent fear=Patient to size=Result | 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:9`. **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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