The news: who makes it and how, sentence 13
Some news programmes are made for children, such as Newsround in the UK and Behind the News in Australia; they cover real news but explain words and background.
Who acts: programmes · What happens: make, cover, explain · To what, where: news programmes, real news, words
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 (programmes), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 programmes | det |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 programmes | compound |
| 3 | programmes | programme | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 children | case |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 made | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Newsround | punct |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 11 Newsround | case |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 such | fixed |
| 11 | Newsround | Newsround | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 children | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 UK | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 UK | det |
| 14 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Newsround | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 News | cc |
| 16 | Behind | behind | ADP | _ | 18 News | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 News | det |
| 18 | News | News | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Newsround | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Australia | case |
| 20 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 News | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 cover | punct |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 cover | nsubj |
| 23 | cover | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | parataxis |
| 24 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 news | amod |
| 25 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cover | obj |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 explain | cc |
| 27 | explain | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 cover | conj |
| 28 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 explain | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 background | cc |
| 30 | background | background | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 words | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 | some news programmes | for children such Newsround in the UK and the News in Australia | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for child=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | cover | present | programmes = programme | real news | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme news=Destination | ||||
| 3 | explain speech: assert | present | programmes = programme not said here | words and background | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=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:13.
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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