Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them, sentence 3
Vivid example: in a kitchen in Manchester the six o'clock news shows smoke over a city and the word "missiles".
Who acts: o'clock news · What happens: show · To what, where: smoke, city
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 (o'clock news), 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 | Vivid | vivid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 example | amod |
| 2 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kitchen | nsubj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 kitchen | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 kitchen | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 kitchen | det |
| 6 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Manchester | case |
| 8 | Manchester | Manchester | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 kitchen | nmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 news | det |
| 10 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 o'clock | nummod |
| 11 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 news | compound |
| 12 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shows | nsubj |
| 13 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 kitchen | acl:relcl |
| 14 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shows | obj |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 city | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 city | det |
| 17 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shows | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 word | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 word | det |
| 20 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 city | conj |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 missiles | punct |
| 22 | missiles | missile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 word | appos |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 missiles | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 example | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | the o'clock news | smoke | a city and the word | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent smoke=Recipient |
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:3.
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): R6-punct-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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