---
title: Before keeping everyone home, check the local picture: if only one c… — "Crime is up, I saw it on the news" · tree and pragmatics
description: Before keeping everyone home, check the local picture: if only one child in the class is ill, the illness isn't spreading widely there. Who acts: you, one child, illness. 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
---

<!-- md -->
[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/16/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / 16

# "Crime is up, I saw it on the news", sentence 16

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Before keeping everyone home, check the local picture: if only one child in the class is ill, the illness isn't spreading widely there.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** you, one child, illness · **What happens:** keep, check, be, not spread · **To what, where:** everyone, local picture

<!-- .vabout -->
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, one child, illness), 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:16
# text = Before keeping everyone home, check the local picture: if only one child in the class is ill, the illness isn't spreading widely there.
# 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	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	advcl	_	_
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	obj	_	_
4	home	home	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	advcl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	spreading	spread	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
26	widely	widely	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | gerund | you *not said here* | everyone |  |  |  | home *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Theme |
| 2 | **check** | imperative | you *not said here* | the local picture |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | one child in the class |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **spread** | present · progressive | the illness |  |  | there |  | widely *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:16`.

**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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: ["Crime is up, I saw it on the news", 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/15/)
- next →: ["Crime is up, I saw it on the news", 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/17/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/)

