--- title: If the news about wars, fires or disasters scares you, ask an adult… — Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder, spiders,… · tree and pragmatics description: If the news about wars, fires or disasters scares you, ask an adult to explain and watch less news; the news shows the worst things and often not the helpers. Who acts: news. 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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 (news), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:319-anger-fears-and-boredom.lesson:16 # text = If the news about wars, fires or disasters scares you, ask an adult to explain and watch less news; the news shows the worst things and often not the helpers. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 319-anger-fears-and-boredom.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 about about ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 wars war NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 fires fire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 disasters disaster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 10 scares scare VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 explain explain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 20 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 21 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 worst bad ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 28 amod _ _ 28 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 often often ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 helpers helper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 34 . . 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 | **scare** | present | the news about wars and fires or disasters | you | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | the news about wars and fires or disasters *not said here* | | a adult | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **explain** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the news about wars and fires or disasters *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **watch** | infinitive | the news about wars and fires or disasters *not said here* | less news | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme | | 5 | **show** | present | the news | the worst things and the helpers | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient | 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. 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