Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them, sentence 15
A missing child on the news is a rare case; police use the news so that the public can help, and the family safety rules still work.
Who acts: missing child, police, public, safety rules · What happens: be, use, help, work · To what, where: rare case, 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 (missing child, police, public, safety rules), 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 | 3 child | det |
| 2 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 child | amod |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 case | nsubj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 news | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 news | det |
| 6 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 child | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 case | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 case | det |
| 9 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 case | amod |
| 10 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 use | punct |
| 12 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 use | nsubj |
| 13 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 case | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 news | det |
| 15 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 use | obj |
| 16 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 21 help | mark |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 so | fixed |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 public | det |
| 19 | public | public | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 help | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 help | aux |
| 21 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 use | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 work | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 work | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 rules | det |
| 25 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 safety | compound |
| 26 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 rules | compound |
| 27 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 work | nsubj |
| 28 | still | still | ADV | _ | 29 work | advmod |
| 29 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 use | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 case | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a missing child on the news | a rare case | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | present | police | the news | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Patient | ||||
| 3 | help | can | the public | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | work | present | the safety rules | still | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: 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:051-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them.lesson:15.
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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