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title: When a clip goes viral, news shows sometimes chase it, which can pus… — Memes, clips and jokes about politicians · tree and pragmatics
description: When a clip goes viral, news shows sometimes chase it, which can push more important stories off the screen. Who acts: clip, news shows. A sentence of the lesson «Memes, clips and jokes about politicians» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Memes, clips and jokes about politicians, sentence 17

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When a clip goes viral, news shows sometimes chase it, which can push more important stories off the screen.

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**Who acts:** clip, news shows · **What happens:** go, chase, push · **To what, where:** clip, important stories, screen

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Memes, clips and jokes about politicians» 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 (clip, news shows), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:013-memes-clips-and-jokes-about-politicians.lesson:17
# text = When a clip goes viral, news shows sometimes chase it, which can push more important stories off the screen.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 013-memes-clips-and-jokes-about-politicians.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): no change
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	clip	clip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	viral	viral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	shows	show	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	_
10	chase	chase	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl:relcl	_	_
16	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
17	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	screen	screen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **go** | present | a clip |  |  |  |  | viral *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **chase** | present | news shows | clip |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **push** | can |  | important stories |  | the screen |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent story=Theme off screen=Trajectory |

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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): no change. **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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