"Crime is up, I saw it on the news", sentence 1

Watch 300 crime stories in a year and your brain starts to feel that crime is everywhere, even if none of them happened on your street.

Who acts: you, brain, crime, none · What happens: watch, start, feel, be, happen · To what, where: 300 crime stories, street

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 (you, brain, crime, none), 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	Watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	300	300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 stories	nummod
3	crime	crime	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stories	compound
4	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Watch	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 year	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Watch	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 starts	cc
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 brain	nmod:poss
10	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 starts	nsubj
11	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Watch	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 feel	mark
13	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 starts	xcomp
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 everywhere	mark
15	crime	crime	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 everywhere	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 everywhere	cop
17	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 feel	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 happened	punct
19	even	even	ADV	_	24 happened	advmod
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 happened	mark
21	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	24 happened	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 none	nmod
24	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 everywhere	advcl
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 street	case
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 street	nmod:poss
27	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 happened	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Watch	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: warn
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=warn

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	imperative	you not said here	300 crime stories		year		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme
2	start	present	your brain					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	feel	to-infinitive	your brain not said here					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	is	present	crime				everywhere property	tree rules
5	happen a condition, not said to happen	past	none		your street			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on street=Location

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: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): no change. 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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