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title: "Breaking news" means news that has only just come in; early details… — Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Breaking news" means news that has only just come in; early details and numbers are often wrong and get corrected later. Who acts: Breaking news, news, early details. A sentence of the lesson «Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs opinion» of the adult life course of Mova's prima
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# Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs opinion, sentence 11

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"Breaking news" means news that has only just come in; early details and numbers are often wrong and get corrected later.

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**Who acts:** Breaking news, news, early details · **What happens:** mean, come in, be, correct · **To what, where:** news

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs opinion» 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 (Breaking news, news, early details), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:052-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion.lesson:11
# text = "Breaking news" means news that has only just come in; early details and numbers are often wrong and get corrected later.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 052-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Breaking	breaking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
12	in	in	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	details	detail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	often	often	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	get	get	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	corrected	correct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
24	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Breaking news | news |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Topic |
| 2 | **come in** | present · perfect | news |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | early details and numbers |  |  |  |  | often, wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **correct** *speech: disagree* | infinitive · passive | early details and numbers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient» |

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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.

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**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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