The news: who makes it and how, sentence 6
Breaking news is news about something happening right now; early reports are often unclear or wrong, and good news channels correct themselves as facts come in.
Who acts: Breaking, early reports, good news channels, facts · What happens: break, be, happen, correct, come in · To what, where: news, reporters
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 (Breaking, early reports, good news channels, facts), 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 | Breaking | break | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 news | csubj |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Breaking | obj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 news | cop |
| 4 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 something | case |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 news | nmod |
| 7 | happening | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 something | acl |
| 8 | right | right | ADV | _ | 9 now | advmod |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 happening | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 unclear | punct |
| 11 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 reports | amod |
| 12 | reports | report | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 unclear | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 unclear | cop |
| 14 | often | often | ADV | _ | 15 unclear | advmod |
| 15 | unclear | unclear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 news | parataxis |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 wrong | cc |
| 17 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 unclear | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 correct | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 channels | cc |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 channels | amod |
| 21 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 channels | compound |
| 22 | channels | channel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 correct | nsubj |
| 23 | correct | correct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 unclear | conj |
| 24 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 23 correct | obj |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 come | mark |
| 26 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 come | nsubj |
| 27 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 correct | advcl |
| 28 | in | in | ADV | _ | 27 come | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 news | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | gerund | news | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer news=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Breaking | news | about something | tree rules | |||
| 3 | happen | gerund | now | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | present | early reports | often, unclear property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | early reports not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | correct speech: disagree | present | good news channels | reporters = reporter | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | ||||
| 7 | come in | present | facts | vn escape-51.1-1 «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:6.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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