The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others, sentence 10
Sudan is dangerous and hard for reporters to reach, which is one reason it gets less news time.
Who acts: Sudan, reporters, city · What happens: be, reach, get · To what, where: one reason
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 (Sudan, reporters, city), 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 | Sudan | Sudan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dangerous | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dangerous | cop |
| 3 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 hard | cc |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dangerous | conj |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 reach | mark |
| 7 | reporters | reporter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 reach | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 reach | mark |
| 9 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hard | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 reason | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 reason | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 reason | cop |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 reason | nummod |
| 14 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dangerous | acl:relcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gets | nsubj |
| 16 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 reason | acl |
| 17 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 time | amod |
| 18 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 time | compound |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gets | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dangerous | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Sudan | dangerous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Sudan not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | reach | to-infinitive | reporters | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | one reason | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | get | present | city | one reason not said here | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reason=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:028-the-wars-the-news-shows-less-sudan-and-others.lesson:10.
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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