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title: Too much news can cause news fatigue; some families make news-free t… — Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about polit… · tree and pragmatics
description: Too much news can cause news fatigue; some families make news-free times, like dinner. Who acts: much news, families. 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 tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics, sentence 19

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Too much news can cause news fatigue; some families make news-free times, like dinner.

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**Who acts:** much news, families · **What happens:** cause, make · **To what, where:** news fatigue

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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 (much news, families), 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:19
# text = Too much news can cause news fatigue; some families make news-free times, like dinner.
# 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): no change
1	Too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
14	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **cause** | can | much news | news fatigue |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fatigue=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | present | some families |  |  |  | time |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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**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:19`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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