Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them, sentence 16

Animal attacks on people are rare, and they make big news because they are rare; headlines can make a rare danger feel common.

Who acts: Animal attacks, attacks, headlines, rare danger · What happens: be, make, feel · To what, where: big news, rare danger

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them» of the biology 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 (Animal attacks, attacks, headlines, rare danger), 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	Animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 attacks	compound
2	attacks	attack	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rare	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 people	case
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 attacks	nmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rare	cop
6	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 make	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 make	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 make	nsubj
10	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rare	conj
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 news	amod
12	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 make	obj
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 rare	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 rare	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 rare	cop
16	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 make	advcl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 make	punct
18	headlines	headline	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 make	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 make	aux
20	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 rare	parataxis
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 danger	det
22	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 danger	amod
23	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 make	obj
24	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 make	xcomp
25	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 feel	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 rare	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Animal attacks on people		rare property	tree rules
2	make	present	attacks = attack	big news		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset news=Product
3	is	present	attacks = attack		rare property	tree rules
4	make	can	headlines	a rare danger		tree rules
5	feel	infinitive	a rare danger not said here		common property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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:biology:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them.lesson:16.

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): no change. 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them/16/