--- title: A TV weather presenter stands in front of a plain green screen; the… — Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and… · tree and pragmatics description: A TV weather presenter stands in front of a plain green screen; the map is added by computer, so he points at a screen he watches off to the side. Who acts: TV weather presenter, computer, presenter. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (TV weather presenter, computer, presenter), 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:19 # text = A TV weather presenter stands in front of a plain green screen; the map is added by computer, so he points at a screen he watches off to the side. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 TV TV NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 presenter presenter NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 plain plain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 screen screen NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 map map NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 added add VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 18 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 computer computer NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 points point VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 screen screen NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 watches watch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 off off ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | present | a TV weather presenter | | | front of a plain green screen | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location | | 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | present · passive | computer | the map | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | | 3 | **point** | present | presenter | | | a screen | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **watch off** | present | presenter | a screen *not said here* | | | | to the side | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent screen=Theme | 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:052-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion.lesson:19`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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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