Accidents, wars and deaths on the news, sentence 0
The news tells us about deaths from crashes, fires, wars and shipwrecks because they are terrible and unusual; most car journeys, school days and working days end safely, which is exactly why the rare sad ones become news.
Who acts: news, shipwrecks, most car journeys, rare sad ones · What happens: tell, be, end, become · To what, where: us, news · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Accidents, wars and deaths on the news» of the religion ethics 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, shipwrecks, most car journeys, rare sad ones), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 news | det |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tells | nsubj |
| 3 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tells | iobj |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 deaths | case |
| 6 | deaths | death | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tells | obl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 crashes | case |
| 8 | crashes | crash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 deaths | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fires | punct |
| 10 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 crashes | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wars | punct |
| 12 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 deaths | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shipwrecks | cc |
| 14 | shipwrecks | shipwreck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wars | conj |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 terrible | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 terrible | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 terrible | cop |
| 18 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tells | advcl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 unusual | cc |
| 20 | unusual | unusual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 terrible | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 journeys | punct |
| 22 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 journeys | amod |
| 23 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 journeys | compound |
| 24 | journeys | journey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 end | nsubj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 days | punct |
| 26 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 days | compound |
| 27 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 journeys | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 days | cc |
| 29 | working | working | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 days | compound |
| 30 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 days | conj |
| 31 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tells | parataxis |
| 32 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 31 end | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 become | punct |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 why | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 why | cop |
| 36 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 37 why | advmod |
| 37 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 42 become | advmod |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 ones | det |
| 39 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 ones | amod |
| 40 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 ones | amod |
| 41 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 become | nsubj |
| 42 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 end | advcl |
| 43 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 become | xcomp |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | the news | us | about deaths from crashes and fires and wars and shipwrecks | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent we=Recipient about death=Topic | |||
| 2 | is | present | shipwrecks = shipwreck | terrible property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | shipwrecks = shipwreck not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | end | present | most car journeys and school days and working days | safely property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | is | present | exactly, why property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | become | present | the rare sad ones | news | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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:religion-ethics:060-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news.lesson:0.
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, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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