--- title: A famous person crying on TV is a real person in pain; asking how yo… — Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on th… · tree and pragmatics description: A famous person crying on TV is a real person in pain; asking how you would feel if your sad moment were shown to millions is a good test. Who acts: famous person, you, asking. 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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 (famous person, you, asking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:053-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa.lesson:16 # text = A famous person crying on TV is a real person in pain; asking how you would feel if your sad moment were shown to millions is a good test. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 053-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa.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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 crying cry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 TV TV NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 14 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 csubj _ _ 15 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 19 if if SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 20 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 shown show VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 advcl _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | a famous person *not said here* | | | TV | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tv=Location | | 2 | **is a** | present | a famous person | a real person and a good test | | pain | | | tree rules | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **feel** | would | you | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **show** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive | | your sad moment | millions | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to million=Recipient | | 6 | **is a** | present | asking | a good test | | | | | tree rules | 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:053-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa.lesson:16`. **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): no change. **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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