Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them, sentence 9
Wars, disasters and accidents on the news are real, but most happen far away; finding the place on a map shrinks the fear to its proper size.
Who acts: Wars, finding · What happens: be, happen, find, shrink · To what, where: place, map, fear
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 (Wars, finding), 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 | Wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 real | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 disasters | punct |
| 3 | disasters | disaster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Wars | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 accidents | cc |
| 5 | accidents | accident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Wars | conj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 news | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 news | det |
| 8 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wars | nmod |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 real | cop |
| 10 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 happen | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 happen | cc |
| 13 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 14 happen | advmod |
| 14 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 real | conj |
| 15 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 away | advmod |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 happen | advmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 finding | punct |
| 18 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 shrinks | csubj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 place | det |
| 20 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 finding | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 map | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 map | det |
| 23 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 finding | obl |
| 24 | shrinks | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 happen | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fear | det |
| 26 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shrinks | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 size | case |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 size | nmod:poss |
| 29 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 size | amod |
| 30 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fear | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 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 | Wars on the news and disasters and accidents | real property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | happen | present | Wars on the news and disasters and accidents not said here | away property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | gerund | the place | a map | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic | ||||
| 4 | shrink | present | finding | the fear | to fear's proper size result | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent fear=Patient to size=Result |
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:9.
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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