The news: who makes it and how, sentence 5
A reporter finds out what happened and tells the public; a live report is shown as it happens, often from the place where the story is.
Who acts: reporter, it · What happens: find out, happen, tell, show · To what, where: public, live report, place · 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 (reporter, it), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 reporter | det |
| 2 | reporter | reporter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 finds | nsubj |
| 3 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 finds | compound:prt |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 happened | nsubj |
| 6 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 finds | ccomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tells | cc |
| 8 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 finds | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 public | det |
| 10 | public | public | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tells | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 shown | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 report | det |
| 13 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 report | amod |
| 14 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shown | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 shown | aux:pass |
| 16 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 finds | parataxis |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 happens | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 happens | nsubj |
| 19 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 shown | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 happens | punct |
| 21 | often | often | ADV | _ | 24 place | advmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 place | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 place | det |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shown | obl |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 is | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 story | det |
| 27 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 is | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 place | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 finds | 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 | find out | present | a reporter | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | present | a reporter not said here | the public | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent public=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | show | present · passive | a live report | the place | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | happen | present | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:5.
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 ×3, 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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