Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the world getting better?, sentence 16

News reports sudden bad events, while slow good changes rarely make headlines, so the world can seem worse than the data shows.

Who acts: News, slow good changes, world, data · What happens: report, make, seem, show · To what, where: sudden bad events, headlines

This is a sentence of the lesson «Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the world getting better?» of the history 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, slow good changes, world, data), 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	News	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reports	nsubj
2	reports	report	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 events	amod
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 events	amod
5	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 reports	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 make	punct
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 make	mark
8	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 changes	amod
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 changes	amod
10	changes	change	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 make	nsubj
11	rarely	rarely	ADV	_	12 make	advmod
12	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 reports	advcl
13	headlines	headline	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 make	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 seem	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	19 seem	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 world	det
17	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seem	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 seem	aux
19	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 reports	parataxis
20	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 seem	xcomp
21	than	than	SCONJ	_	24 shows	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 data	det
23	data	data	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 shows	nsubj
24	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 worse	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reports	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	report	present	News	sudden bad events		vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent event=Patient
2	make	present	slow good changes	headlines	rarely property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset headline=Product
3	seem	can	the world		bad property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	show	present	the data			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:history:079-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better.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): R5-strong ×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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