Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war and what-ifs, sentence 14
Many online videos say scary things that are not true to get views; clickbait is a scary or exciting title made to get clicks, and a conspiracy theory is a false story about a secret plan.
Who acts: Many online videos, scary things, clickbait, conspiracy theory · What happens: say, not be, get, be, make · To what, where: scary things, views, scary title, clicks, false story · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war and what-ifs» of the reflection 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 (Many online videos, scary things, clickbait, conspiracy theory), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 videos | amod |
| 2 | online | online | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 videos | amod |
| 3 | videos | video | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 things | amod |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 say | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 true | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 true | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 true | advmod |
| 10 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 things | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 get | mark |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 true | advcl |
| 13 | views | view | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 get | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 title | punct |
| 15 | clickbait | clickbait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 title | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 title | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 title | det |
| 18 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 title | amod |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 exciting | cc |
| 20 | exciting | exciting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 scary | conj |
| 21 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | parataxis |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 title | acl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 get | mark |
| 24 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 made | advcl |
| 25 | clicks | click | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 get | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 story | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 story | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 theory | det |
| 29 | conspiracy | conspiracy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 theory | compound |
| 30 | theory | theory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 story | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 story | cop |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 story | det |
| 33 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 story | amod |
| 34 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 title | conj |
| 35 | about | about | ADP | _ | 38 plan | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 plan | det |
| 37 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 plan | amod |
| 38 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 story | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Many online videos | scary things | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | scary things | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | scary things not said here | views | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer view=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | clickbait | a scary title and a false story | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | participle | a scary title and a false story not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 6 | get | to-infinitive | clicks | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer click=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | is a | present | a conspiracy theory | a false story | about a secret plan | 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:reflection:008-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs.lesson:14.
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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