--- title: Reporters often pick dramatic people to interview; one angry man on… — "Crime is up, I saw it on the news" · tree and pragmatics description: Reporters often pick dramatic people to interview; one angry man on TV doesn't show what most people think, but a fair survey can. Who acts: Reporters, one angry man, most people. 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 dep --- [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/15/) [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/) / 15 # "Crime is up, I saw it on the news", sentence 15 Reporters often pick dramatic people to interview; one angry man on TV doesn't show what most people think, but a fair survey can. **Who acts:** Reporters, one angry man, most people · **What happens:** pick, interview, not show, think · **To what, where:** dramatic people · **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 (Reporters, one angry man, most people), 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:15 # text = Reporters often pick dramatic people to interview; one angry man on TV doesn't show what most people think, but a fair survey can. # 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 Reporters reporter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 pick pick VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 dramatic dramatic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 interview interview VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 10 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 TV TV NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 17 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 20 obj _ _ 18 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 19 amod _ _ 19 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 survey survey NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pick** | present | Reporters | dramatic people | | | | often *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | | 2 | **interview** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Reporters *not said here* | dramatic people *not said here* | | | | | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **show** | present · do-support | one angry man on TV | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present | most people | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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:15`. **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", 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/14/) - next →: ["Crime is up, I saw it on the news", 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/)