The news: who makes it and how, sentence 10
News mostly covers things that are new, surprising or important, which often means problems; millions of good, ordinary things happen every day but are not news.
Who acts: News, things, millions · What happens: cover, be, mean, happen, not be · To what, where: things, problems, news
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 (News, things, millions), 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 | 3 covers | nsubj |
| 2 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 3 covers | advmod |
| 3 | covers | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 covers | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 new | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 new | cop |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 things | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 surprising | punct |
| 9 | surprising | surprising | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 new | conj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 important | cc |
| 11 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 new | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 means | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 means | nsubj |
| 14 | often | often | ADV | _ | 15 means | advmod |
| 15 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 surprising | parataxis |
| 16 | problems | problem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 means | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 millions | punct |
| 18 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 happen | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 things | case |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 things | amod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 good | punct |
| 22 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 things | amod |
| 23 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 millions | nmod |
| 24 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 covers | conj |
| 25 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 day | det |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 happen | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 news | cc |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 news | cop |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 news | advmod |
| 30 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 happen | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 covers | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | present | News | things | mostly property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | present | things | new property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | things not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | be | things not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | mean | present | problems | often property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Topic | ||||
| 6 | happen | present | millions of good ordinary things | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | not is a | present | millions of good ordinary things not said here | news | tree rules |
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:10.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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