Accidents, wars and deaths on the news, sentence 1

Picture Oscar in front of the TV: bombed buildings in Ukraine fill the screen and he asks, «Are people dying there right now?» His mum says yes, sadly, that he is safe at home, and that many people are helping; then she turns the news off and they talk.

Who acts: you, bombed buildings, Oscar, people, mum, many people · What happens: picture, bomb, fill, ask, die, say · To what, where: Oscar, front, screen, home, 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 (you, bombed buildings, Oscar, people), 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	Picture	picture	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Oscar	oscar	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 front	case
4	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 TV	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 TV	det
7	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 front	nmod
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 buildings	punct
9	bombed	bomb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 buildings	amod
10	buildings	building	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fill	nsubj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 Ukraine	case
12	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 buildings	nmod
13	fill	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Picture	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 screen	det
15	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fill	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 asks	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 asks	nsubj
18	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fill	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 asks	punct
20	«	«	PUNCT	_	23 dying	punct
21	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 dying	aux
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 dying	nsubj
23	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 asks	ccomp
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 dying	advmod
25	right	right	ADV	_	26 now	advmod
26	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 dying	advmod
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 asks	punct
28	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 asks	punct
29	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 mum	nmod:poss
30	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 says	nsubj
31	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fill	parataxis
32	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	31 says	ccomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sadly	punct
34	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	39 safe	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 safe	punct
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 safe	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 safe	nsubj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 safe	cop
39	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 says	ccomp
40	at	at	ADP	_	41 home	case
41	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 safe	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 helping	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 helping	cc
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 helping	mark
45	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 people	amod
46	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 helping	nsubj
47	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 helping	aux
48	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 safe	conj
49	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 turns	punct
50	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	52 turns	advmod
51	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 turns	nsubj
52	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fill	advcl
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 news	det
54	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 turns	obj
55	off	off	ADP	_	52 turns	compound:prt
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 talk	cc
57	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 talk	nsubj
58	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 turns	conj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	picture	imperative	you not said here	Oscar	front of the TV			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent oscar=Theme
2	bomb	participle						vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	fill	present	bombed buildings in Ukraine	the screen				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent screen=Patient
4	ask speech: ask	present	Oscar					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	die in a quote	present · progressive	people		there	now		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	say speech: assert	present	Oscar's mum					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is	present	Oscar		home		sadly, safe property	tree rules
8	help	present · progressive	many people					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
9	turn off	present	mum	the news		then		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent news=Patient
10	talk	present	people					vn talk-37.5 «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:religion-ethics:060-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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