--- title: The news tells us about deaths from crashes, fires, wars and shipwre… — Accidents, wars and deaths on the news · tree and pragmatics description: The news tells us about deaths from crashes, fires, wars and shipwrecks because they are terrible and unusual; most car journeys, school days and working days end safely, which is exactly why the rare sad ones become news. Who acts: news, shipwrecks, most car journeys, rare sad ones. 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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, shipwrecks, most car journeys, rare sad ones), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:060-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news.lesson:0 # text = The news tells us about deaths from crashes, fires, wars and shipwrecks because they are terrible and unusual; most car journeys, school days and working days end safely, which is exactly why the rare sad ones become news. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 060-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 iobj _ _ 5 about about ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 deaths death NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj 7 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 crashes crash NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 fires fire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 wars war NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 shipwrecks shipwreck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 terrible terrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 unusual unusual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 22 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 24 amod _ _ 23 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 journeys journey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:appos 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 working working NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 30 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 31 end end VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 32 safely safely ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 34 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 36 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 42 advmod _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 40 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nsubj _ _ 42 become become VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 43 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 xcomp _ _ 44 . . 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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the news | | us | | | about deaths from crashes and fires and wars and shipwrecks | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent we=Recipient about death=Topic | | 2 | **is** | present | shipwrecks *= shipwreck* | | | | | terrible *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | shipwrecks *= shipwreck* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **end** | present | most car journeys and school days and working days | | | | | safely *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **is** | present | | | | | | exactly, why *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **become** | present | the rare sad ones | news | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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:religion-ethics:060-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news.lesson:0`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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