Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them, sentence 2
Scary news is real, but it is usually far away, it is usually rare, and the same pictures are shown again and again, so the world can feel much worse than it is.
Who acts: Scary news, TV, world · What happens: be, show, feel · To what, where: same pictures
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 (Scary news, TV, world), 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 | Scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 news | amod |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 real | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 real | cop |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 away | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 away | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 away | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 away | cop |
| 9 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 11 away | advmod |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 away | advmod |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 real | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rare | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 rare | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 rare | cop |
| 15 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 16 rare | advmod |
| 16 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 real | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 shown | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 shown | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 pictures | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 pictures | amod |
| 21 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 shown | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 shown | aux:pass |
| 23 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 real | conj |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 23 shown | advmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 again | cc |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 again | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 feel | punct |
| 28 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 32 feel | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 world | det |
| 30 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 feel | nsubj |
| 31 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 feel | aux |
| 32 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 real | conj |
| 33 | much | much | ADV | _ | 34 worse | advmod |
| 34 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 feel | xcomp |
| 35 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 37 is | mark |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 is | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 worse | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 real | 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 | Scary news | real property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | TV | away, far, usually property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | TV | rare, usually property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | show | present · passive | the same pictures | again | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | feel | can | the world | bad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | be | present | TV | vn exist-47.1 «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:2.
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 ×1, R7-rel-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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