The news: who makes it and how, sentence 8

An editor decides which stories are used, which go first and how long they are, and checks them; those choices shape what people think is important.

Who acts: editor, stories, choices, people · What happens: decide, use, go, be, shape, think · To what, where: stories · 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 (editor, stories, choices, people), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 editor	det
2	editor	editor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 decides	nsubj
3	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	which	which	DET	PronType=Rel	5 stories	det
5	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 used	nsubj:pass
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 used	aux:pass
7	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 decides	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 go	nsubj
10	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 used	conj
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 go	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 checks	cc
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 long	advmod
14	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 checks	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 checks	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 checks	cop
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 checks	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 checks	cc
19	checks	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 go	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 checks	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 shape	punct
22	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 choices	det
23	choices	choice	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 shape	nsubj
24	shape	shape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 decides	parataxis
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 think	obj
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 think	nsubj
27	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 important	csubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 important	cop
29	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 shape	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 decides	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	decide	present	a editor			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	use	present · passive		which stories		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	go	present			first property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	stories = story		check, long property	tree rules
5	shape	present	that choices			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
6	think speech: other	present	people			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
7	is	present	that choices not said here		important property	tree rules

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:8.

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): 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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