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title: When two channels give different numbers of people hurt, it is usual… — Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and… · tree and pragmatics
description: When two channels give different numbers of people hurt, it is usually because nobody knows the exact number yet, not because one is lying. Who acts: two channels, news, one. A sentence of the lesson «Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs opinion» of the adult life course of Mova'
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# Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs opinion, sentence 12

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When two channels give different numbers of people hurt, it is usually because nobody knows the exact number yet, not because one is lying.

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**Who acts:** two channels, news, one · **What happens:** give, hurt, be, not lie · **To what, where:** different numbers, people

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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 (two channels, news, one), 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:12
# text = When two channels give different numbers of people hurt, it is usually because nobody knows the exact number yet, not because one is lying.
# 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
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	channels	channel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
5	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	16	nsubj	_	_
16	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
23	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | two channels | different numbers of people |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme |
| 2 | **hurt** | participle |  | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present | news |  |  |  | yet | know, usually *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **lie** | present · progressive | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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:052-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion.lesson:12`.

**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. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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