--- title: Picture Oscar in front of the TV: bombed buildings in Ukraine fill t… — Accidents, wars and deaths on the news · tree and pragmatics description: Picture Oscar in front of the TV: bombed buildings in Ukraine fill the screen and he asks, «Are people dying there right now?» His mum says yes, sadly, that he is safe at home, and that many people are helping; then she turns the news off and they talk. 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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 (you, bombed buildings, Oscar, people), 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:1 # text = Picture Oscar in front of the TV: bombed buildings in Ukraine fill the screen and he asks, «Are people dying there right now?» His mum says yes, sadly, that he is safe at home, and that many people are helping; then she turns the news off and they talk. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 Oscar oscar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 TV TV NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 bombed bomb VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 amod _ _ 10 buildings building NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Ukraine Ukraine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 fill fill VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 screen screen NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 21 Are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 dying die VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 ccomp _ _ 24 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ _ 25 right right ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod 27 ? ? PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ 28 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 29 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 32 yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 31 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:discourse 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 sadly sadly ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 39 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 ccomp _ _ 40 at at ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 44 that that SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 45 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 nsubj _ _ 47 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 48 helping help VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 conj _ _ 49 ; ; PUNCT : _ 52 punct _ _ 50 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 52 advmod _ _ 51 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 52 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obj _ _ 55 off off ADP RP _ 52 compound:prt _ _ 56 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 57 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 58 nsubj _ _ 58 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 52 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj 59 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | Oscar | | front of the TV | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent oscar=Theme | | 2 | **bomb** | participle | | | | | | | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **fill** | present | bombed buildings in Ukraine | the screen | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent screen=Patient | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Oscar | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **die** *in a quote* | present · progressive | people | | | there | now | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Oscar's mum | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | present | Oscar | | | home | | sadly, safe *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **help** | present · progressive | many people | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **turn off** | present | mum | the news | | | then | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent news=Patient | | 10 | **talk** | present | people | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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:religion-ethics:060-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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