Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs opinion, sentence 24
Children's news programmes explain the news calmly, without the scariest pictures; a warning that pictures "may be distressing" means you may look away.
Who acts: news programmes, pictures, warning, you, Children · What happens: explain, be, mean, look away, programme · To what, where: news, warning · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs opinion» 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 (news programmes, pictures, warning, you), 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 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 programmes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Children | case |
| 3 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 programmes | compound |
| 4 | programmes | programme | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 explain | nsubj |
| 5 | explain | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 means | parataxis |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 news | det |
| 7 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 explain | obj |
| 8 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 5 explain | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pictures | punct |
| 10 | without | without | ADP | _ | 13 pictures | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pictures | det |
| 12 | scariest | scary | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 pictures | amod |
| 13 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 explain | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 warning | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 warning | det |
| 16 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 means | nsubj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 distressing | mark |
| 18 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 distressing | nsubj |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 distressing | punct |
| 20 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 distressing | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 distressing | cop |
| 22 | distressing | distress | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 warning | acl |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 distressing | punct |
| 24 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 look | nsubj |
| 26 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 look | aux |
| 27 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 means | ccomp |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 27 look | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 explain | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | present | Children's news programmes | the news | without the scariest pictures; calmly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Topic | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | may | pictures | a warning not said here | distress property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | mean | present | a warning | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | look away | may | you | away property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | programme | Children | nom programme «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:052-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion.lesson:24.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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