--- title: When news makes you scared or sad, the best tools are small ones: sa… — Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about polit… · tree and pragmatics description: When news makes you scared or sad, the best tools are small ones: say the worry out loud to a grown-up you trust, ask them to explain, take a news break, and do one small kind thing. Who acts: news, best tools, you. 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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 (news, best tools, you), 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:6 # text = When news makes you scared or sad, the best tools are small ones: say the worry out loud to a grown-up you trust, ask them to explain, take a news break, and do one small kind thing. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 amod _ _ 11 tools tool NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 16 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 worry worry NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 out out ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 20 loud loud ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 compound _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ _ 25 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 trust trust VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 30 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 iobj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 explain explain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:advcl 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 break break NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ _ 41 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 44 nummod _ _ 42 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 43 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | news | you | | | | scared *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product | | 2 | **is a** | present | the best tools | small ones | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say out** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | the worry | a grown up | | | loud *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent worry=Topic to up=Recipient | | 4 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **trust** | present | you | a grown up *not said here* | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent up=Theme | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | | | tools *= tool* | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **explain** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **take** | infinitive | | a news break | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent break=Theme | | 9 | **do** | infinitive | | one small kind thing | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | 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. 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