--- title: Animal attacks on people are rare, and they make big news because th… — Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how… · tree and pragmatics description: Animal attacks on people are rare, and they make big news because they are rare; headlines can make a rare danger feel common. Who acts: Animal attacks, attacks, headlines, rare danger. 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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 (Animal attacks, attacks, headlines, rare danger), 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:16 # text = Animal attacks on people are rare, and they make big news because they are rare; headlines can make a rare danger feel common. # 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): no change 1 Animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 attacks attack NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 11 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 because because SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 advcl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 headlines headline NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 25 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Animal attacks on people | | | | | rare *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | present | attacks *= attack* | big news | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset news=Product | | 3 | **is** | present | attacks *= attack* | | | | | rare *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | can | headlines | a rare danger | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **feel** | infinitive | a rare danger *not said here* | | | | | common *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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:biology:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them.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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