--- title: TV talent shows are edited to be dramatic, so harsh comments and tea… — Singing, choirs and talent shows · tree and pragmatics description: TV talent shows are edited to be dramatic, so harsh comments and tears are often shown more because they get more viewers. Who acts: comments. A sentence of the lesson «Singing, choirs and talent shows» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/8-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows/8/) [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/) / [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/) / [Singing, choirs and talent shows](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/8-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows/) / 8 # Singing, choirs and talent shows, sentence 8 TV talent shows are edited to be dramatic, so harsh comments and tears are often shown more because they get more viewers. **Who acts:** comments · **What happens:** edit, be, show, get · **To what, where:** talent shows, harsh comments, more viewers This is a sentence of the lesson «Singing, choirs and talent shows» of the arts 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 (comments), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:008-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows.lesson:8 # text = TV talent shows are edited to be dramatic, so harsh comments and tears are often shown more because they get more viewers. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 008-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows.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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 TV TV NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 talent talent NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 shows show NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 edited edit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 7 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 cop _ _ 8 dramatic dramatic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 advcl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 11 harsh harsh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 comments comment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc 14 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 16 often often ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 shown show VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 18 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 17 advmod _ _ 19 because because SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 22 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 amod _ _ 23 viewers viewer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **edit** | present · passive | | talent shows | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | | dramatic *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **show** | present · passive | | harsh comments and tears | | | | often *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 4 | **get** | present | comments *= comment* | more viewers | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer viewer=Stimulus | 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:arts:008-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows.lesson:8`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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: [Singing, choirs and talent shows, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/8-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows/7/) - next →: [Singing, choirs and talent shows, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/8-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/8-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows/)