--- title: News reports sudden bad events, while slow good changes rarely make… — Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, a… · tree and pragmatics description: News reports sudden bad events, while slow good changes rarely make headlines, so the world can seem worse than the data shows. Who acts: News, slow good changes, world, data. A sentence of the lesson «Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the world getting better?» of the history co --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better/16/) [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/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, sp…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better/) / 16 # Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the world getting better?, sentence 16 News reports sudden bad events, while slow good changes rarely make headlines, so the world can seem worse than the data shows. **Who acts:** News, slow good changes, world, data · **What happens:** report, make, seem, show · **To what, where:** sudden bad events, headlines This is a sentence of the lesson «Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the world getting better?» of the history 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 (News, slow good changes, world, data), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:079-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better.lesson:16 # text = News reports sudden bad events, while slow good changes rarely make headlines, so the world can seem worse than the data shows. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 079-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better.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 1 News news NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 reports report VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 4 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 events event NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 7 while while SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 8 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 changes change NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 11 rarely rarely ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 13 headlines headline NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 seem seem VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 20 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 xcomp _ _ 21 than than SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 data data NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **report** | present | News | sudden bad events | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent event=Patient | | 2 | **make** | present | slow good changes | headlines | | | | rarely *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset headline=Product | | 3 | **seem** | can | the world | | | | | bad *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **show** | present | the data | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:history:079-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better.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): R5-strong ×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. 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