Bad news, protests and helping others, sentence 0
The news shows the most urgent and often the worst things happening anywhere in the world, so it can feel as if everything is going wrong.
Who acts: news, worst things, it, everything · What happens: show, happen, feel, go · To what, where: urgent
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bad news, protests and helping others» of the adult life 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, worst things, it, everything), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 news | det |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 urgent | det |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 urgent | advmod |
| 6 | urgent | urgent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shows | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 happening | cc |
| 8 | often | often | ADV | _ | 12 happening | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 things | det |
| 10 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 things | amod |
| 11 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 happening | nsubj |
| 12 | happening | happen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 urgent | conj |
| 13 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 happening | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 anywhere | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 feel | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 feel | advmod |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 feel | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 feel | aux |
| 21 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 shows | parataxis |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 if | fixed |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 going | mark |
| 24 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 26 going | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 going | aux |
| 26 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 feel | advcl |
| 27 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 going | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | the news | the urgent | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent urgent=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | happen | gerund | the worst things | anywhere, often property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feel | can | it | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | go a condition, not said to happen | present · progressive | everything | wrong property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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, 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:adult-life:032-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others.lesson:0.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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.
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