--- title: Vivid example: in Toronto, red letters slide across the bottom of a… — Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and… · tree and pragmatics description: Vivid example: in Toronto, red letters slide across the bottom of a cartoon: BREAKING NEWS. Who acts: red letters, cartoon. 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 with its dependency tree and the p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/5/) [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/) / [Elections, crime, the weather, breakin…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/) / 5 # Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs opinion, sentence 5 Vivid example: in Toronto, red letters slide across the bottom of a cartoon: BREAKING NEWS. **Who acts:** red letters, cartoon · **What happens:** slide, break · **To what, where:** Toronto, NEWS 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 (red letters, cartoon), 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:5 # text = Vivid example: in Toronto, red letters slide across the bottom of a cartoon: BREAKING NEWS. # 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 Vivid vivid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Toronto Toronto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 slide slide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 10 across across ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 17 BREAKING break VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 acl _ _ 18 NEWS news NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **slide** | present | red letters | | | Toronto | | across the bottom of a cartoon | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in toronto=Source across bottom=Trajectory | | 2 | **break** | gerund | a cartoon *not said here* | NEWS | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer news=Patient | 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:5`. **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. 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