--- title: News shows the worst things happening because they are new; taking a… — Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about polit… · tree and pragmatics description: News shows the worst things happening because they are new; taking a break from the news is all right. Who acts: News, worst things, families, taking. A sentence of the lesson «Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/14-dad-shouting-at-the-tv-big-feelings-about-politics/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/) / [Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/14-dad-shouting-at-the-tv-big-feelings-about-politics/) / 13 # Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics, sentence 13 News shows the worst things happening because they are new; taking a break from the news is all right. **Who acts:** News, worst things, families, taking · **What happens:** show, happen, be, take · **To what, where:** worst things, break, news This is a sentence of the lesson «Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics» 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 (News, worst things, families, taking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:014-dad-shouting-at-the-tv-big-feelings-about-politics.lesson:13 # text = News shows the worst things happening because they are new; taking a break from the news is all right. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 014-dad-shouting-at-the-tv-big-feelings-about-politics.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 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 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 worst bad ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 amod _ _ 5 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 6 happening happen VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 7 because because SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 advcl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 12 taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 csubj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 break break NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 all all ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 21 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | News | the worst things | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient | | 2 | **happen** | gerund | the worst things *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | families *= family* | | | | | new *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **take** | gerund | | a break | | the news | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent break=Theme from news=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **is** | present | taking | | | | | all, right *property* | tree rules | 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:014-dad-shouting-at-the-tv-big-feelings-about-politics.lesson:13`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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. 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