The news: who makes it and how, sentence 11
Different news channels choose different stories, words and experts, so the same event can sound very different; comparing several sources shows what they agree on.
Who acts: Different news channels, same event, comparing, stories · What happens: choose, sound, compare, show, agree · To what, where: different stories, several sources · 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 (Different news channels, same event, comparing, 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 | Different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 channels | amod |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 channels | compound |
| 3 | channels | channel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 choose | nsubj |
| 4 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stories | amod |
| 6 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 choose | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 words | punct |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stories | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 experts | cc |
| 10 | experts | expert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 words | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sound | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 sound | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 event | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 event | amod |
| 15 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sound | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 sound | aux |
| 17 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 choose | parataxis |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 different | advmod |
| 19 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sound | xcomp |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 shows | punct |
| 21 | comparing | compare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 shows | csubj |
| 22 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sources | amod |
| 23 | sources | source | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 comparing | obj |
| 24 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 choose | parataxis |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 agree | obj |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 agree | nsubj |
| 27 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 shows | ccomp |
| 28 | on | on | ADV | _ | 27 agree | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 choose | 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 | choose | present | Different news channels | different stories and words and experts | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sound | can | the same event | different property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | compare | gerund | several sources | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent source=Patient | |||||
| 4 | show | present | comparing | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | agree speech: agree | present | stories = story | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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:11.
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): R7-rel-agree ×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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