--- title: The news picks unusual, scary stories because they are surprising, a… — "Crime is up, I saw it on the news" · tree and pragmatics description: The news picks unusual, scary stories because they are surprising, and that makes them feel more common than they are. Who acts: news, stories, that. 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 pragmatic --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # "Crime is up, I saw it on the news", sentence 7 The news picks unusual, scary stories because they are surprising, and that makes them feel more common than they are. **Who acts:** news, stories, that · **What happens:** pick, be, make, feel · **To what, where:** unusual scary stories, stories 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 (news, stories, that), 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:7 # text = The news picks unusual, scary stories because they are surprising, and that makes them feel more common than they are. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 picks pick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 unusual unusual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 8 because because SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 surprising surprising ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:WDT:PronType=Rel 15 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 19 advmod _ _ 19 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 20 than than SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pick** | present | the news | unusual scary stories | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | stories *= story* | | | | | surprising *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | present | that | stories *= story* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **feel** | infinitive | stories *= story* *not said here* | | | | | common *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **does** | present | stories *= story* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:7`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: ["Crime is up, I saw it on the news", 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/6/) - next →: ["Crime is up, I saw it on the news", 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/)