The news: who makes it and how, sentence 3

First reports, especially "breaking news", are often unclear or wrong, and headlines are short and made to grab you, so read past the headline, check more than one source, and notice who is speaking: a named spokesperson or an unnamed "source close to the team".

Who acts: First reports, headlines · What happens: break, be, make, grab, read, check · To what, where: you, one source · 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 (First reports, headlines), 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	First	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 reports	amod
2	reports	report	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 unclear	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 news	punct
4	especially	especially	ADV	_	7 news	advmod
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 breaking	punct
6	breaking	break	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 news	amod
7	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reports	nmod
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 news	punct
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 reports	punct
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 unclear	cop
11	often	often	ADV	_	12 unclear	advmod
12	unclear	unclear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 wrong	cc
14	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 unclear	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 short	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 short	cc
17	headlines	headline	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 short	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 short	cop
19	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 unclear	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 made	cc
21	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 short	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 grab	mark
23	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 made	advcl
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 grab	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 read	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 read	advmod
27	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 made	advcl
28	past	past	ADP	_	30 headline	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 headline	det
30	headline	headline	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 read	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 check	punct
32	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	27 read	conj
33	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	35 one	advmod
34	than	than	ADP	_	33 more	fixed
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 source	nummod
36	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 check	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 notice	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 notice	cc
39	notice	notice	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	32 check	conj
40	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 speaking	nsubj
41	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 speaking	aux
42	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 notice	ccomp
43	:	:	PUNCT	_	39 notice	punct
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 spokesperson	det
45	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 spokesperson	amod
46	spokesperson	spokesperson	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 notice	parataxis
47	or	or	CCONJ	_	51 source	cc
48	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 source	det
49	unnamed	unnamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 source	amod
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	51 source	punct
51	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 spokesperson	conj
52	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 source	amod
53	to	to	ADP	_	55 team	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 team	det
55	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 close	obl
56	"	"	PUNCT	_	46 spokesperson	punct
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 unclear	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	break in a quote	gerund				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	First reports breaking news		often, unclear property	tree rules
3	be		First reports breaking news not said here			tree rules
4	is	present	headlines		short property	tree rules
5	make	participle	headlines not said here			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
6	grab	to-infinitive	headlines not said here	you		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
7	read	infinitive	headlines not said here		past the headline	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	check	infinitive	headlines not said here	one source		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent source=Theme
9	notice	infinitive	headlines not said here			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
10	speak speech: other	present · progressive				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	name	participle				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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:3.

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 ×2, 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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