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title: Headlines make news sound bigger to sell papers and get clicks; the… — The best ever and shocking: adverts and headlines · tree and pragmatics
description: Headlines make news sound bigger to sell papers and get clicks; the article underneath gives the real numbers. Who acts: Headlines, article. A sentence of the lesson «The best ever and shocking: adverts and headlines» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# The best ever and shocking: adverts and headlines, sentence 12

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Headlines make news sound bigger to sell papers and get clicks; the article underneath gives the real numbers.

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**Who acts:** Headlines, article · **What happens:** make, sound, sell, get, give · **To what, where:** papers, clicks, real numbers

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The best ever and shocking: adverts and headlines» of the language 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 (Headlines, article), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:047-the-best-ever-and-shocking-adverts-and-headlines.lesson:12
# text = Headlines make news sound bigger to sell papers and get clicks; the article underneath gives the real numbers.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 047-the-best-ever-and-shocking-adverts-and-headlines.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Headlines	headline	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	sound	sound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:xcomp
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	papers	paper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
11	clicks	click	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	article	article	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	underneath	underneath	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod
16	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## 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 | **make** | present | Headlines |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sound** | infinitive | Headlines *not said here* |  |  |  |  | big *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **sell** | to-infinitive | Headlines *not said here* | papers |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Theme |
| 4 | **get** | infinitive | Headlines *not said here* | clicks |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer click=Stimulus |
| 5 | **give** | present | the article | the real numbers |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=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:language:047-the-best-ever-and-shocking-adverts-and-headlines.lesson:12`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-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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