--- title: Children's news programmes explain the news calmly, without the scar… — Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and… · tree and pragmatics description: Children's news programmes explain the news calmly, without the scariest pictures; a warning that pictures "may be distressing" means you may look away. Who acts: news programmes, pictures, warning, you. 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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 (news programmes, pictures, warning, you), 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:24 # text = Children's news programmes explain the news calmly, without the scariest pictures; a warning that pictures "may be distressing" means you may look away. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 programmes programme NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 explain explain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 calmly calmly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 without without ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 scariest scary ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 amod _ _ 13 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 18 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 20 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 cop _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:aux 22 distressing distress ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 acl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 ccomp _ _ 28 away away ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | Children's news programmes | the news | | | | without the scariest pictures; calmly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Topic | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | may | pictures | a warning *not said here* | | | | distress *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | present | a warning | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **look away** | may | you | | | | | away *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **programme** | | Children | | | | | | nom programme «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:24`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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