--- title: The news is a list of the most unusual and frightening things that h… — "Crime is up, I saw it on the news" · tree and pragmatics description: The news is a list of the most unusual and frightening things that happened somewhere in the whole country today; the ordinary, safe days of millions of people are not news. Who acts: news, unusual things, ordinary safe days. 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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, unusual things, ordinary safe days), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news.lesson:0 # text = The news is a list of the most unusual and frightening things that happened somewhere in the whole country today; the ordinary, safe days of millions of people are not news. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 list list NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 8 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 9 advmod _ _ 9 unusual unusual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 frightening frightening ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 12 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 somewhere somewhere ADV RB PronType=Ind 14 advmod _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 20 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl:unmarked _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 23 ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 31 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the news | a list | | | | of the unusual things | tree rules | | 2 | **happen** | past | the unusual things | | | the whole country | today | somewhere *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in country=Location | | 3 | **not** **is a** | present | the ordinary safe days of millions of people | news | | | | | tree rules | 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:world:177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats", 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats/17/) - next →: ["Crime is up, I saw it on the news", 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/)