--- title: Plane crashes are on the news because they are rare; car crashes are… — "Crime is up, I saw it on the news" · tree and pragmatics description: Plane crashes are on the news because they are rare; car crashes are so common they hardly make it. Who acts: Plane crashes, crashes, car crashes. 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 pragmatics o --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # "Crime is up, I saw it on the news", sentence 3 Plane crashes are on the news because they are rare; car crashes are so common they hardly make it. **Who acts:** Plane crashes, crashes, car crashes · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** news 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 (Plane crashes, crashes, car crashes), 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:3 # text = Plane crashes are on the news because they are rare; car crashes are so common they hardly make it. # 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 Plane plane NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 crashes crash NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 because because SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 advcl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 12 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 crashes crash NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Plane crashes | | | the news | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | crashes *= crash* | | | | | rare *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | car crashes | | | | | common *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | present | crashes *= crash* | news | | | | hardly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | 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:3`. **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/). - ← previous: ["Crime is up, I saw it on the news", 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/2/) - next →: ["Crime is up, I saw it on the news", 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/)