"Crime is up, I saw it on the news", sentence 15

Reporters often pick dramatic people to interview; one angry man on TV doesn't show what most people think, but a fair survey can.

Who acts: Reporters, one angry man, most people · What happens: pick, interview, not show, think · To what, where: dramatic people · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Reporters, one angry man, most 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	Reporters	reporter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pick	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 pick	advmod
3	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	dramatic	dramatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pick	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 interview	mark
7	interview	interview	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 people	acl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 show	punct
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 man	nummod
10	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 show	nsubj
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 TV	case
13	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 man	nmod
14	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 show	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 show	advmod
16	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pick	parataxis
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 think	obj
18	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 people	amod
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 think	nsubj
20	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 show	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 can	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 can	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 survey	det
24	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 survey	amod
25	survey	survey	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 can	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 pick	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pick	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pick	present	Reporters	dramatic people	often property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
2	interview speech: other	to-infinitive	Reporters not said here	dramatic people not said here		vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not show	present · do-support	one angry man on TV			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	think speech: other	present	most people			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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:15.

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): 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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