Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics, sentence 13
News shows the worst things happening because they are new; taking a break from the news is all right.
Who acts: News, worst things, families, taking · What happens: show, happen, be, take · To what, where: worst things, break, news
This is a sentence of the lesson «Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics» 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, worst things, families, taking), 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 things | det |
| 4 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 things | amod |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 shows | obj |
| 6 | happening | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 things | acl |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 new | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 new | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 new | cop |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 happening | advcl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 right | punct |
| 12 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 right | csubj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 break | det |
| 14 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taking | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 news | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 news | det |
| 17 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taking | obl |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 right | cop |
| 19 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 right | advmod |
| 20 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 shows | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | News | the worst things | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | happen | gerund | the worst things not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | families = family | new property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | gerund | a break | the news | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent break=Theme from news=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | is | present | taking | all, right 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:014-dad-shouting-at-the-tv-big-feelings-about-politics.lesson:13.
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): R2-punct-next ×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.
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