--- title: A scary screen-time number may count schoolwork and a TV left on in… — "Crime is up, I saw it on the news" · tree and pragmatics description: A scary screen-time number may count schoolwork and a TV left on in the background, so always ask what exactly was counted. Who acts: scary time number. 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 tree and the pragma --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/12/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / ["Crime is up, I saw it on the news"](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/) / 12 # "Crime is up, I saw it on the news", sentence 12 A scary screen-time number may count schoolwork and a TV left on in the background, so always ask what exactly was counted. **Who acts:** scary time number · **What happens:** count, leave, ask · **To what, where:** schoolwork, TV, background · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (scary time number), 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:12 # text = A scary screen-time number may count schoolwork and a TV left on in the background, so always ask what exactly was counted. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 2 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 3 screen screen NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 count count VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 schoolwork schoolwork NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 TV TV NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 13 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 background background NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 always always ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 counted count VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 ccomp _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | may | a scary time number | schoolwork and a TV | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent schoolwork=Theme | | 2 | **leave** | participle | | a TV *not said here* | | the background | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on background=Location | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | | | | | | always *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **count** | past · passive | | | | | | exactly *property* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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:12`. **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): 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: ["Crime is up, I saw it on the news", 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/11/) - next →: ["Crime is up, I saw it on the news", 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/)