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title: Animal stories are some of the most shared news in the world: a baby… — Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how… · tree and pragmatics
description: Animal stories are some of the most shared news in the world: a baby panda, a shark in a flooded street, a clever crow, orcas pushing boats. Who acts: orcas. A sentence of the lesson «Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them, sentence 0

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Animal stories are some of the most shared news in the world: a baby panda, a shark in a flooded street, a clever crow, orcas pushing boats.

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**Who acts:** orcas · **What happens:** share, flood, push · **To what, where:** boats

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them» of the biology 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 (orcas), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them.lesson:0
# text = Animal stories are some of the most shared news in the world: a baby panda, a shark in a flooded street, a clever crow, orcas pushing boats.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them.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	Animal	Animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	8	advmod	_	_
8	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	panda	panda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:appos
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	flooded	flood	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	orcas	orca	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
30	pushing	push	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Part	29	acl	_	_
31	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **flood** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **push** | gerund | orcas *not said here* | boats |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme |

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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.

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**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:biology:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them.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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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