Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them, sentence 20
Checking scary news again and again, especially late at night, keeps the worry going and makes nobody safer.
Who acts: Checking, worry · What happens: check, keep, go, make · To what, where: scary news, worry, nobody
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 (Checking, worry), 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 | Checking | check | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 keeps | csubj |
| 2 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 news | amod |
| 3 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Checking | obj |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 Checking | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 again | cc |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 again | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 late | punct |
| 8 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 9 late | advmod |
| 9 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Checking | advmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 night | case |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 late | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Checking | punct |
| 13 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 worry | det |
| 15 | worry | worry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 keeps | obj |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 keeps | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 makes | cc |
| 18 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 keeps | conj |
| 19 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 18 makes | obj |
| 20 | safer | safe | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 makes | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | gerund | scary news | again | late property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme | |||
| 2 | keep | present | Checking | the worry | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | gerund | the worry not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | make | present | Checking not said here | nobody | safe property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nobody=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:20.
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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