--- title: Breaking news is news about something happening right now; early rep… — The news: who makes it and how · tree and pragmatics description: Breaking news is news about something happening right now; early reports are often unclear or wrong, and good news channels correct themselves as facts come in. Who acts: Breaking, early reports, good news channels, facts. 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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 (Breaking, early reports, good news channels, facts), 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:6 # text = Breaking news is news about something happening right now; early reports are often unclear or wrong, and good news channels correct themselves as facts come in. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Breaking break VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 csubj _ _ 2 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 about about ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 nmod _ _ 7 happening happen VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ _ 8 right right ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 7 advmod _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 reports report NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 often often ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 unclear unclear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 channels channel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 correct correct VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:parataxis 24 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 23 obj _ _ 25 as as SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 facts fact NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 28 in in ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** | gerund | | news | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer news=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | present | Breaking | news | | | | about something | tree rules | | 3 | **happen** | gerund | | | | | now | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | early reports | | | | | often, unclear *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | early reports *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **correct** *speech: disagree* | present | good news channels | reporters *= reporter* | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | | 7 | **come in** | present | facts | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «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:6`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how/5/) - next →: [The news: who makes it and how, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how/)