--- title: When we talk about real news we say "it was reported that", because… — In the news: invented court cases and an airline… · tree and pragmatics description: When we talk about real news we say "it was reported that", because we were not there and reports can be wrong; these lessons do the same. Who acts: we, reports, lessons. 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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 (we, reports, lessons), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:ai:020-news-court-cases-airline.lesson:0 # text = When we talk about real news we say "it was reported that", because we were not there and reports can be wrong; these lessons do the same. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = ai # lesson = 020-news-court-cases-airline.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 ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 4 about about ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 ccomp _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 17 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 12 conj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 reports report NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 cop _ _ 25 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 28 det _ _ 28 lessons lesson NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** | present | we | | | | | about real news | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about news=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | we | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **report** *in a quote* | past · passive | | news | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **not** **is** | past | we | | | | | there *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | can | reports | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **do** | present | this lessons | the same | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality | 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:ai:020-news-court-cases-airline.lesson:0`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Counting the AI in one ordinary day, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day/15/) - next →: [In the news: invented court cases and…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/)