Accidents, wars and deaths on the news, sentence 3

People can feel real sadness for strangers, like a famous footballer or an old queen they never met, and that is a different kind of sadness from losing family; rumours at the school gate spread fast and are often wrong, so we wait for what grown-ups actually say.

Who acts: People, that, different kind, rumours, we, grown ups · What happens: feel, not meet, be, lose, spread, wait · To what, where: real sadness, old queen, different kind, family · 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 (People, that, different kind, rumours), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feel	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 feel	aux
3	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sadness	amod
5	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feel	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 strangers	case
7	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sadness	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 footballer	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 footballer	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 footballer	det
11	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 footballer	amod
12	footballer	footballer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feel	parataxis
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 queen	cc
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 queen	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 queen	amod
16	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 footballer	conj
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 met	nsubj
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 met	advmod
19	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 queen	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 kind	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 kind	cc
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 kind	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 kind	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 kind	det
25	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 kind	amod
26	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 footballer	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 sadness	case
28	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 kind	nmod
29	from	from	SCONJ	_	30 losing	mark
30	losing	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 kind	acl
31	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 losing	obj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 rumours	punct
33	rumours	rumour	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 spread	nsubj
34	at	at	ADP	_	37 gate	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 gate	det
36	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 gate	compound
37	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 rumours	nmod
38	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 feel	parataxis
39	fast	fast	ADV	_	38 spread	advmod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 wrong	cc
41	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 wrong	cop
42	often	often	ADV	_	43 wrong	advmod
43	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 spread	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 wait	punct
45	so	so	ADV	_	47 wait	advmod
46	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 wait	nsubj
47	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 feel	parataxis
48	for	for	ADP	_	49 what	case
49	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 wait	obl
50	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 ups	amod
51	-	-	PUNCT	_	50 grown	punct
52	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 say	nsubj
53	actually	actually	ADV	_	54 say	advmod
54	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 what	acl:relcl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 feel	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feel	can	People	real sadness	for strangers	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent sadness=Location for stranger=Theme
2	not meet	past	people	a old queen not said here		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Co-Agent
3	is a	present	that	a different kind	of sadness	tree rules
4	lose	gerund	a different kind not said here	family		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Eventuality
5	spread	present	rumours at the school gate		fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	present	rumours at the school gate not said here		often, wrong property	tree rules
7	wait	present	we			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	say speech: assert	present	grown ups		actually property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:3.

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): 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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