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title: A correction is a notice fixing a mistake in a news story; admitting… — The news: who makes it and how · tree and pragmatics
description: A correction is a notice fixing a mistake in a news story; admitting mistakes shows a news source cares about accuracy. Who acts: correction, notice, admitting, news source. A sentence of the lesson «The news: who makes it and how» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency 
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# The news: who makes it and how, sentence 15

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A correction is a notice fixing a mistake in a news story; admitting mistakes shows a news source cares about accuracy.

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**Who acts:** correction, notice, admitting, news source · **What happens:** be, fix, admit, show, cares · **To what, where:** notice, mistake, news story, mistakes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (correction, notice, admitting, news source), 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:15
# text = A correction is a notice fixing a mistake in a news story; admitting mistakes shows a news source cares about accuracy.
# 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 ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	correction	correction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	fixing	fix	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	admitting	admit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	csubj	_	_
15	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obj
20	cares	cares	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
21	about	about	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	accuracy	accuracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a correction | a notice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fix** | gerund | a notice *not said here* | a mistake |  | a news story |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent mistake=Patient |
| 3 | **admit** *speech: other* | gerund |  | mistakes |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Theme |
| 4 | **show** | present | admitting | a notice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **cares** | present | a news source |  |  |  |  | about accuracy | tree rules |

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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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**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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