--- title: News mostly covers things that are new, surprising or important, whi… — The news: who makes it and how · tree and pragmatics description: News mostly covers things that are new, surprising or important, which often means problems; millions of good, ordinary things happen every day but are not news. Who acts: News, things, millions. 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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 (News, things, millions), 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:10 # text = News mostly covers things that are new, surprising or important, which often means problems; millions of good, ordinary things happen every day but are not news. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 News news NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 covers cover VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 surprising surprising ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 important important ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 14 often often ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 16 problems problem NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 24 happen happen VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 26 det _ _ 26 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl:unmarked _ _ 27 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cover** | present | News | things | | | | mostly *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Destination | | 2 | **is** | present | things | | | | | new *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | things *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | things *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **mean** | present | | problems | | | | often *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Topic | | 6 | **happen** | present | millions of good ordinary things | | | | day | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **not** **is a** | present | millions of good ordinary things *not said here* | news | | | | | tree rules | 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:10`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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/). - ← previous: [The news: who makes it and how, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how/9/) - next →: [The news: who makes it and how, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how/)