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title: Watch 300 crime stories in a year and your brain starts to feel that… — "Crime is up, I saw it on the news" · tree and pragmatics
description: Watch 300 crime stories in a year and your brain starts to feel that crime is everywhere, even if none of them happened on your street. Who acts: you, brain, crime, none. A sentence of the lesson «"Crime is up, I saw it on the news"» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# "Crime is up, I saw it on the news", sentence 1

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Watch 300 crime stories in a year and your brain starts to feel that crime is everywhere, even if none of them happened on your street.

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**Who acts:** you, brain, crime, none · **What happens:** watch, start, feel, be, happen · **To what, where:** 300 crime stories, street

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This is a sentence of the lesson «"Crime is up, I saw it on the news"» of the world 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: who acts (you, brain, crime, none), 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:1
# text = Watch 300 crime stories in a year and your brain starts to feel that crime is everywhere, even if none of them happened on your street.
# 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): no change
1	Watch	watch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	300	300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	crime	crime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	crime	crime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	13	ccomp	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	even	even	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	24	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* | 300 crime stories |  |  | year |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme |
| 2 | **start** | present | your brain |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **feel** | to-infinitive | your brain *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | present | crime |  |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **happen** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | none |  |  | your street |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on street=Location |

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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.

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**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: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): no change. **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/).

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