--- title: Videos have claimed "the world will end" many times for years, and i… — Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war… · tree and pragmatics description: Videos have claimed "the world will end" many times for years, and it has not happened; checking facts with a trusted adult helps. Who acts: Videos, world, it, checking. 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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 (Videos, world, it, checking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:008-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs.lesson:15 # text = Videos have claimed "the world will end" many times for years, and it has not happened; checking facts with a trusted adult helps. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 008-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Videos video NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 claimed claim VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 end end VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 10 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 happened happen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 21 checking check VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 csubj _ _ 22 facts fact NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 amod _ _ 26 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 27 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **claim** *speech: other* | present · perfect | Videos | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **end** *in a quote* | future | the world | | | | time; year | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **not** **happen** | present · perfect | it | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **check** | gerund | | facts | | | | with a trusted adult | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Theme | | 5 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **help** | present | checking | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | 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:reflection:008-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs.lesson:15`. **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): R6-punct-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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