The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others, sentence 1

News teams cover what they can reach safely, what viewers already know, and where big countries are involved, so a war can be huge and still hardly shown.

Who acts: News teams, teams, viewers, big countries, war · What happens: cover, reach, know, be, show

This is a sentence of the lesson «The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others» 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 teams, teams, viewers, big countries), 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 teams	compound
2	teams	team	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cover	nsubj
3	cover	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 reach	obj
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 reach	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 reach	aux
7	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cover	ccomp
8	safely	safely	ADV	_	7 reach	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 know	obj
11	viewers	viewer	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 know	nsubj
12	already	already	ADV	_	13 know	advmod
13	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cover	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 involved	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 involved	cc
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 involved	advmod
17	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 countries	amod
18	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 involved	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 involved	cop
20	involved	involved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 know	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 huge	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	27 huge	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 war	det
24	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 huge	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 huge	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 huge	cop
27	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cover	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 shown	cc
29	still	still	ADV	_	31 shown	advmod
30	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	31 shown	advmod
31	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 huge	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cover	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	cover	present	News teams			tree rules
2	reach	can	teams = team		safely property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent what=Theme
3	know	present	viewers			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
4	is	present	big countries		involved property	tree rules
5	is	can	a war		huge property	tree rules
6	show	participle	a war not said here	still	hardly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:028-the-wars-the-news-shows-less-sudan-and-others.lesson:1.

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): R5-strong ×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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