The news: who makes it and how, sentence 7
A headline is the big title of a story; it is short and made to grab attention, so it can make things sound bigger or simpler than the full story; clickbait is a headline made mainly to get clicks.
Who acts: headline, report, things, clickbait · What happens: be, make, grab, sound, get · To what, where: big title, attention, things, headline, clicks
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 (headline, report, things, clickbait), 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 headline | det |
| 2 | headline | headline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 title | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 title | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 title | det |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 title | amod |
| 6 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 story | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 story | det |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 title | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 title | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 short | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 short | cop |
| 13 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 title | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 made | cc |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 short | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 grab | mark |
| 17 | grab | grab | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 made | xcomp |
| 18 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grab | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 make | punct |
| 20 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 23 make | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 make | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 make | aux |
| 23 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 grab | advcl |
| 24 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 make | obj |
| 25 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 make | xcomp |
| 26 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 sound | xcomp |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 simpler | cc |
| 28 | simpler | simple | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 bigger | conj |
| 29 | than | than | ADP | _ | 32 story | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 story | det |
| 31 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 story | amod |
| 32 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 simpler | obl |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 headline | punct |
| 34 | clickbait | clickbait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 headline | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 headline | cop |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 headline | det |
| 37 | headline | headline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 title | parataxis |
| 38 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 headline | acl |
| 39 | mainly | mainly | ADV | _ | 38 made | advmod |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 get | mark |
| 41 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 made | advcl |
| 42 | clicks | click | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 get | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 title | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a headline | the big title | of a story | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | report | short property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | participle | report not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | grab | to-infinitive | report not said here | attention | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Theme | ||||
| 5 | make | can | report | things | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | sound | infinitive | things not said here | big property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | is a | present | clickbait | a headline | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | make | participle | a headline not said here | mainly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 9 | get | to-infinitive | clicks | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer click=Stimulus |
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:7.
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): R8-pos-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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