Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them, sentence 1
It shows the worst moments, because what is new and unusual today is what makes the news.
Who acts: It · What happens: show, be, make · To what, where: news
This is a sentence of the lesson «Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them» 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 (It), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shows | nsubj |
| 2 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 moments | det |
| 4 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 moments | amod |
| 5 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 shows | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 what | punct |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 new | mark |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 new | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 new | cop |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 shows | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 unusual | cc |
| 12 | unusual | unusual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 new | conj |
| 13 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 new | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 what | cop |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 new | ccomp |
| 16 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 what | acl:relcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 news | det |
| 18 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 makes | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 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 | It | moment | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | today | new property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 4 | is a | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | make | present | the news | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset news=Product |
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:051-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them.lesson:1.
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): no change. 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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