--- title: The news is made by people: reporters find out what happened by goin… — The news: who makes it and how · tree and pragmatics description: The news is made by people: reporters find out what happened by going to the place and talking to people, and editors decide which stories go in, which go first and which are left out, because there is never room for everything. Who acts: people, reporters, editors, stories. 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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 (people, reporters, editors, stories), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:010-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how.lesson:0 # text = The news is made by people: reporters find out what happened by going to the place and talking to people, and editors decide which stories go in, which go first and which are left out, because there is never room for everything. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 010-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:agent _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 reporters reporter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 10 out out ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 12 nsubj _ _ 12 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 13 by by SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 14 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 advcl _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 conj _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 editors editor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 decide decide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 26 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 27 det _ _ 27 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ _ 29 in in ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 32 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:conj 33 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 32 advmod _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 32 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:advcl 38 out out ADP RP _ 37 compound:prt _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 because because SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 41 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 42 expl _ _ 42 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 43 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 42 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=44:advmod 44 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 45 for for ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 44 nmod _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **make** | present · passive | people | the news | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product | | 2 | **find out** | present | reporters | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **happen** | past | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **go** | gerund | | | | the place | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **talk** | gerund | | | | | | to people | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to people=Co-Agent | | 6 | **decide** | present | editors | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **go in** | present | which stories | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **go** | present | | | | | | first *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **leave out** | present · passive | | | | | | | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 10 | **not** **be** | present | room for everything | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:politics:010-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how.lesson:0`. **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 ×3, 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. 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