Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that tells a story, sentence 8

A tabloid is a newspaper or magazine that sells by shocking headlines and gossip about famous people; one ordinary photo plus dramatic words can become a whole story.

Who acts: tabloid, newspaper magazine · What happens: be, sell, become · To what, where: newspaper magazine, whole story

This is a sentence of the lesson «Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that tells a story» 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 (tabloid, newspaper magazine), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tabloid	det
2	tabloid	tabloid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 magazine	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 magazine	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 newspaper	det
5	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 magazine	compound
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 magazine	cc
7	magazine	magazine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 sells	nsubj
9	sells	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 magazine	acl:relcl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 headlines	case
11	shocking	shocking	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 headlines	amod
12	headlines	headline	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sells	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 gossip	cc
14	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 headlines	conj
15	about	about	ADP	_	17 people	case
16	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 people	amod
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 gossip	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 photo	punct
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 photo	nummod
20	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 photo	amod
21	photo	photo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 magazine	parataxis
22	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	26 become	cc
23	dramatic	dramatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 words	amod
24	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 photo	conj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 become	aux
26	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 photo	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 story	det
28	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 story	amod
29	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 become	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 magazine	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a tabloid	newspaper magazine		tree rules
2	sell	present	newspaper magazine		by shocking headlines and gossip about famous people	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	become	can	a tabloid not said here	a whole story		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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:046-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo.lesson:8.

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 ×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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