Bad news, protests and helping others, sentence 9
The news mostly reports the worst and most urgent events, because that is what feels important to report.
Who acts: news, that · What happens: report, be, feel · To what, where: worst events
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, that), 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 | 4 reports | nsubj |
| 3 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 4 reports | advmod |
| 4 | reports | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 events | det |
| 6 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 events | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 events | cc |
| 8 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 urgent | advmod |
| 9 | urgent | urgent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 worst | conj |
| 10 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 reports | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 what | punct |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 what | mark |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 what | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 what | cop |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 reports | advcl |
| 16 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 what | acl:relcl |
| 17 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 feels | xcomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 report | mark |
| 19 | report | report | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 important | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reports | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | present | the news | the worst events | mostly property | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent event=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | present | that | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | feel | present | important property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | report | to-infinitive | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:9.
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 ×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.
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