Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics, sentence 19
Too much news can cause news fatigue; some families make news-free times, like dinner.
Who acts: much news, families · What happens: cause, make · To what, where: news fatigue
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 (much news, families), 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 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 news | amod |
| 3 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cause | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 cause | aux |
| 5 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fatigue | compound |
| 7 | fatigue | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cause | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 families | det |
| 10 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 make | nsubj |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cause | parataxis |
| 12 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 free | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 free | punct |
| 14 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 times | amod |
| 15 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 make | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dinner | punct |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 dinner | case |
| 18 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 times | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cause | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | can | much news | news fatigue | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fatigue=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | present | some families | time | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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:19.
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): no change. 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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