--- title: It is fine to turn off frightening news and ask a grown-up to explain. — Accidents, wars and deaths on the news · tree and pragmatics description: It is fine to turn off frightening news and ask a grown-up to explain. A sentence of the lesson «Accidents, wars and deaths on the news» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/60-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Accidents, wars and deaths on the news](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/60-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news/) / 17 # Accidents, wars and deaths on the news, sentence 17 It is fine to turn off frightening news and ask a grown-up to explain. **What happens:** be, turn off, ask, grow, explain · **To what, where:** frightening news, grown up This is a sentence of the lesson «Accidents, wars and deaths on the news» of the religion ethics 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: 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:17 # text = It is fine to turn off frightening news and ask a grown-up to explain. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:xcomp 6 off off ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 frightening frightening ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:det 12 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 14 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 explain explain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **turn off** | to-infinitive | | frightening news | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent news=Patient | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | | a grown up | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient | | 4 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **explain** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «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:17`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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