Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them, sentence 18
Newsreaders speak slowly and look serious about deaths to show respect for the people who died and their families.
Who acts: Newsreaders, people · What happens: speak, look, show, die · To what, where: respect · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Newsreaders, people), 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 | Newsreaders | newsreader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 speak | nsubj |
| 2 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 2 speak | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 look | cc |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 speak | conj |
| 6 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 look | xcomp |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 deaths | case |
| 8 | deaths | death | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 look | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 show | mark |
| 10 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 look | advcl |
| 11 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 show | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 people | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 people | det |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 respect | nmod |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 died | nsubj |
| 16 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 people | acl:relcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 families | cc |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 families | nmod:poss |
| 19 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 died | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 speak | 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 | speak speech: other | present | Newsreaders | slowly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | look | present | Newsreaders not said here | about deaths; serious property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about death=Theme | ||||
| 3 | show | to-infinitive | Newsreaders not said here | respect | for the people | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent respect=Recipient | |||
| 4 | die | past | the people | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:18.
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): R8-pos-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.
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