The news: who makes it and how, sentence 1
Think of your class newspaper with ten stories and room for four: whoever chooses is shaping what everyone thinks matters, and grown-up news works the same way.
Who acts: you, whoever, everyone, grown news · What happens: think, choose, shape, matter, grow, work · To what, where: same way
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 (you, whoever, everyone, grown news), 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 | Think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 newspaper | case |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 newspaper | nmod:poss |
| 4 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 newspaper | compound |
| 5 | newspaper | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Think | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 stories | case |
| 7 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 stories | nummod |
| 8 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 newspaper | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 room | cc |
| 10 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stories | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 four | case |
| 12 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 room | nmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 chooses | punct |
| 14 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 chooses | nsubj |
| 15 | chooses | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 shaping | csubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 shaping | aux |
| 17 | shaping | shape | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Think | parataxis |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 thinks | obj |
| 19 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 20 thinks | nsubj |
| 20 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 matters | csubj |
| 21 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 shaping | ccomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 works | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 works | cc |
| 24 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 news | amod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 grown | punct |
| 26 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 grown | compound |
| 27 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 works | nsubj |
| 28 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 shaping | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 way | det |
| 30 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 way | amod |
| 31 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 works | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | of your class newspaper with ten stories and room for four | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | choose | present | whoever | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | shape | present · progressive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | think speech: other | present | everyone | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 5 | matter | present | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 6 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | work | present | grown news | the same way | vn employment-95.3 «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:politics:010-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how.lesson:1.
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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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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