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title: A headline shouted «MAYOR'S SHOCKING SECRET!» Zara read the article:… — Politicians and promises, as the news reports them · tree and pragmatics
description: A headline shouted «MAYOR'S SHOCKING SECRET!» Zara read the article: he likes pineapple on pizza. Who acts: headline, Zara. A sentence of the lesson «Politicians and promises, as the news reports them» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Politicians and promises, as the news reports them, sentence 15

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A headline shouted «MAYOR'S SHOCKING SECRET!» Zara read the article: he likes pineapple on pizza.

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**Who acts:** headline, Zara · **What happens:** shout, read, like · **To what, where:** SHOCKING SECRET, article, pineapple, pizza

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Politicians and promises, as the news reports them» of the everyday 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 (headline, Zara), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them.lesson:15
# text = A headline shouted «MAYOR'S SHOCKING SECRET!» Zara read the article: he likes pineapple on pizza.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-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): R6-punct-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	headline	headline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	shouted	shout	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
5	MAYOR	MAYOR	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	'S	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	SHOCKING	shocking	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	SECRET	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
11	Zara	Zara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	article	article	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	likes	like	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
18	pineapple	pineapple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	pizza	pizza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **shout** *speech: express* | participle | a headline *not said here* | MAYOR's SHOCKING SECRET |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Topic |
| 2 | **read** | past | Zara | the article |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent article=Topic |
| 3 | **like** | present | Zara | pineapple |  | pizza |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot pineapple=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:everyday:442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them.lesson:15`.

**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 ×2. **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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