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title: "Burglaries up 50%!" sounds terrifying until you hear it went from 2… — "Crime is up, I saw it on the news" · tree and pragmatics
description: "Burglaries up 50%!" sounds terrifying until you hear it went from 2 to 3, and the third one was Dave's shed, and Dave left the door open. Who acts: Burglaries, you, percentage, third one. A sentence of the lesson «"Crime is up, I saw it on the news"» of the world course of Mova's primary school wit
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# "Crime is up, I saw it on the news", sentence 6

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"Burglaries up 50%!" sounds terrifying until you hear it went from 2 to 3, and the third one was Dave's shed, and Dave left the door open.

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**Who acts:** Burglaries, you, percentage, third one, Dave · **What happens:** sound, hear, go, be, leave · **To what, where:** 2, shed, door · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Burglaries, you, percentage, third one), 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:6
# text = "Burglaries up 50%!" sounds terrifying until you hear it went from 2 to 3, and the third one was Dave's shed, and Dave left the door open.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Burglaries	burglary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	up	up	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	terrifying	terrifying	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
10	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advcl
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	23	amod	_	_
23	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	Dave	Dave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	shed	shed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	Dave	Dave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | present | Burglaries |  |  |  |  | terrifying *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hear** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go** | past | percentage |  |  | 2 to 3 |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from 2=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the third one | Dave's shed |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **leave** | past | Dave | the door |  |  |  | open *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme |

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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:6`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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/).

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