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title: Think of your class newspaper with ten stories and room for four: wh… — The news: who makes it and how · tree and pragmatics
description: Think of your class newspaper with ten stories and room for four: whoever chooses is shaping what everyone thinks matters, and grown-up news works the same way. Who acts: you, whoever, everyone, grown news. A sentence of the lesson «The news: who makes it and how» of the politics course of Mova's pr
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# The news: who makes it and how, sentence 1

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Think of your class newspaper with ten stories and room for four: whoever chooses is shaping what everyone thinks matters, and grown-up news works the same way.

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**Who acts:** you, whoever, everyone, grown news · **What happens:** think, choose, shape, matter, grow, work · **To what, where:** same way

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The news: who makes it and how» of the politics 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 (you, whoever, everyone, grown news), 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:1
# text = Think of your class newspaper with ten stories and room for four: whoever chooses is shaping what everyone thinks matters, and grown-up news works the same way.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1
1	Think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc
10	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	chooses	choose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	csubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	shaping	shape	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	parataxis	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	obj	_	_
19	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	20	nsubj	_	_
20	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	csubj	_	_
21	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc
24	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	_
26	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:compound
27	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of your class newspaper with ten stories and room for four | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **choose** | present | whoever |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **shape** | present · progressive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 5 | **matter** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **work** | present | grown news | the same way |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:politics:010-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how.lesson:1`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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