--- title: A headline is the big title of a story; it is short and made to grab… — The news: who makes it and how · tree and pragmatics description: A headline is the big title of a story; it is short and made to grab attention, so it can make things sound bigger or simpler than the full story; clickbait is a headline made mainly to get clicks. Who acts: headline, report, things, clickbait. 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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 (headline, report, things, clickbait), 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:7 # text = A headline is the big title of a story; it is short and made to grab attention, so it can make things sound bigger or simpler than the full story; clickbait is a headline made mainly to get clicks. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 headline headline NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 title title NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 grab grab VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 attention attention NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 so so SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 24 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 xcomp _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 simpler simple ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 26 conj _ _ 29 than than ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 ; ; PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 clickbait clickbait NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 headline headline NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 38 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 acl _ _ 39 mainly mainly ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 advcl _ _ 42 clicks click NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obj _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a headline | the big title | | | | of a story | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | report | | | | | short *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | participle | report *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **grab** | to-infinitive | report *not said here* | attention | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Theme | | 5 | **make** | can | report | things | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **sound** | infinitive | things *not said here* | | | | | big *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **is a** | present | clickbait | a headline | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **make** | participle | | a headline *not said here* | | | | mainly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 9 | **get** | to-infinitive | | clicks | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer click=Stimulus | 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:7`. **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): R8-pos-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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how/6/) - next →: [The news: who makes it and how, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how/)