The news: who makes it and how, sentence 0
The news is made by people: reporters find out what happened by going to the place and talking to people, and editors decide which stories go in, which go first and which are left out, because there is never room for everything.
Who acts: people, reporters, editors, stories, room · What happens: make, find out, happen, go, talk, decide · To what, where: news, place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The news: who makes it and how» of the politics 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 (people, reporters, editors, stories), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 news | det |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 people | case |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | obl:agent |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 find | punct |
| 8 | reporters | reporter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 find | nsubj |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | parataxis |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 find | compound:prt |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 happened | nsubj |
| 12 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | ccomp |
| 13 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 14 going | mark |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 happened | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 place | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 place | det |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 going | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 talking | cc |
| 19 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 going | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 people | case |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 talking | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 decide | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 decide | cc |
| 24 | editors | editor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 decide | nsubj |
| 25 | decide | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 26 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 27 stories | det |
| 27 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 go | nsubj |
| 28 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 decide | ccomp |
| 29 | in | in | ADV | _ | 28 go | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 go | punct |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 go | nsubj |
| 32 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 go | conj |
| 33 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 32 go | advmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 left | cc |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 left | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 left | aux:pass |
| 37 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 go | conj |
| 38 | out | out | ADP | _ | 37 left | compound:prt |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 is | punct |
| 40 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 42 is | mark |
| 41 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 42 is | expl |
| 42 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | advcl |
| 43 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 42 is | advmod |
| 44 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 is | nsubj |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 everything | case |
| 46 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 44 room | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | people | the news | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | find out | present | reporters | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | go | gerund | the place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | |||||
| 5 | talk | gerund | to people | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to people=Co-Agent | |||||
| 6 | decide | present | editors | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | go in | present | which stories | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | go | present | first property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | leave out | present · passive | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||||
| 10 | not be | present | room for everything | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:politics:010-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how.lesson:0.
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 ×3, R7-rel-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.
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