Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them, sentence 14
Plane crashes and terror attacks are on the news because they are very rare; millions of flights land safely every day.
Who acts: Plane crashes, millions · What happens: be, land · 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 (Plane crashes, millions), 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 | Plane | plane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 crashes | compound |
| 2 | crashes | crash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 rare | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 attacks | cc |
| 4 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 attacks | compound |
| 5 | attacks | attack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 crashes | conj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 rare | cop |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 news | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 news | det |
| 9 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rare | obl |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 rare | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 rare | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 rare | cop |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 rare | advmod |
| 14 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 land | punct |
| 16 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 land | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 flights | case |
| 18 | flights | flight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 millions | nmod |
| 19 | land | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 rare | parataxis |
| 20 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 19 land | advmod |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 day | det |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 land | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 rare | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Plane crashes and terror attacks | the news | rare property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | land | present | millions of flights | day | safely property | vn pocket-9.10-1 «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:051-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them.lesson:14.
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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