"Crime is up, I saw it on the news", sentence 0
The news is a list of the most unusual and frightening things that happened somewhere in the whole country today; the ordinary, safe days of millions of people are not news.
Who acts: news, unusual things, ordinary safe days · What happens: be, happen, not be · To what, where: list, whole country, news
This is a sentence of the lesson «"Crime is up, I saw it on the news"» of the world 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, unusual things, ordinary safe days), 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 | 5 list | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 list | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 list | det |
| 5 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 things | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 things | det |
| 8 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 unusual | advmod |
| 9 | unusual | unusual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 things | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 frightening | cc |
| 11 | frightening | frightening | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 unusual | conj |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 list | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 happened | nsubj |
| 14 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 things | acl:relcl |
| 15 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 happened | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 country | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 country | det |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 country | amod |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 happened | obl |
| 20 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 days | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 days | det |
| 23 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 days | amod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ordinary | punct |
| 25 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 days | amod |
| 26 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 news | nsubj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 millions | case |
| 28 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 days | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 people | case |
| 30 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 millions | nmod |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 news | cop |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 news | advmod |
| 33 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 list | parataxis |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 list | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the news | a list | of the unusual things | tree rules | |||
| 2 | happen | past | the unusual things | the whole country | today | somewhere property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in country=Location | ||
| 3 | not is a | present | the ordinary safe days of millions of people | news | 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:world:177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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