--- title: News shows what is unusual, so it often feels sad: nobody reports th… — The news: who makes it and how · tree and pragmatics description: News shows what is unusual, so it often feels sad: nobody reports the planes that land safely; and a good news source owns its mistakes by printing corrections, which is a sign you can trust it more, not less. Who acts: News, nobody, planes, good news source. 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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, nobody, planes, good 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:4 # text = News shows what is unusual, so it often feels sad: nobody reports the planes that land safely; and a good news source owns its mistakes by printing corrections, which is a sign you can trust it more, not less. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 News news NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 unusual unusual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 ccomp _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 often often ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 11 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 14 nsubj _ _ 14 reports report VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 planes plane NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 land land VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 safely safely ADV RB Degree=Pos 18 advmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 source source NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 owns own VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 27 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 mistakes mistake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 by by ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 printing printing NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 corrections correction NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 trust trust VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 acl:relcl _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:nsubj 41 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 39 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:obj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJR:Degree=Cmp 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 44 advmod _ _ 44 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 41 obl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | News | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | unusual *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **feel** | present | news | | | | | often, sad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **report** | present | nobody | the planes | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plane=Patient | | 5 | **land** | present | the planes | | | | | safely *property* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **own** | present | a good news source | source's mistakes | | | | by printing corrections and a sign | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot mistake=Theme | | 7 | **is a** | present | printing corrections and a sign | a sign | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **trust** | can | you | source | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 9 | **mistake** | | source | | | | | | nom mistake «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:4`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how/3/) - next →: [The news: who makes it and how, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how/)