The news: who makes it and how, sentence 4
News shows what is unusual, so it often feels sad: nobody reports the planes that land safely; and a good news source owns its mistakes by printing corrections, which is a sign you can trust it more, not less.
Who acts: News, nobody, planes, good news source, printing corrections, you · What happens: show, be, feel, report, land, own · To what, where: planes, mistakes, sign, 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 (News, nobody, planes, good news source), 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 | 2 shows | nsubj |
| 2 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 unusual | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 unusual | cop |
| 5 | unusual | unusual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 shows | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 feels | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 feels | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 feels | nsubj |
| 9 | often | often | ADV | _ | 10 feels | advmod |
| 10 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 shows | parataxis |
| 11 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 feels | xcomp |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 reports | punct |
| 13 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 reports | nsubj |
| 14 | reports | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 shows | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 planes | det |
| 16 | planes | plane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 reports | obj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 land | nsubj |
| 18 | land | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 planes | acl:relcl |
| 19 | safely | safely | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 land | advmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 owns | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 owns | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 source | det |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 source | amod |
| 24 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 source | compound |
| 25 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 owns | nsubj |
| 26 | owns | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 shows | conj |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 mistakes | nmod:poss |
| 28 | mistakes | mistake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 owns | obj |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 corrections | case |
| 30 | printing | printing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 corrections | compound |
| 31 | corrections | correction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 owns | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 sign | punct |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 sign | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 sign | cop |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 sign | det |
| 36 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 corrections | conj |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 trust | nsubj |
| 38 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 trust | aux |
| 39 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 sign | acl:relcl |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 trust | obj |
| 41 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 39 trust | advmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 less | punct |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 less | advmod |
| 44 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 41 more | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | News | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | unusual property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | feel | present | news | often, sad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | report | present | nobody | the planes | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plane=Patient | ||||
| 5 | land | present | the planes | safely property | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | own | present | a good news source | source's mistakes | by printing corrections and a sign | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot mistake=Theme | |||
| 7 | is a | present | printing corrections and a sign | a sign | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | trust | can | you | source | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 9 | mistake | source | nom mistake «act intransitive»: poss=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:4.
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, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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