"Crime is up, I saw it on the news", sentence 7
The news picks unusual, scary stories because they are surprising, and that makes them feel more common than they are.
Who acts: news, stories, that · What happens: pick, be, make, feel · To what, where: unusual scary stories, stories
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, stories, that), 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 | 3 picks | nsubj |
| 3 | picks | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unusual | unusual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stories | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 unusual | punct |
| 6 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stories | amod |
| 7 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 picks | obj |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 surprising | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 surprising | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 surprising | cop |
| 11 | surprising | surprising | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 picks | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 makes | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 makes | cc |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 makes | nsubj |
| 15 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 picks | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 makes | obj |
| 17 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 makes | xcomp |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 common | advmod |
| 19 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 feel | xcomp |
| 20 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 22 are | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 are | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 common | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 picks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick | present | the news | unusual scary stories | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | stories = story | surprising property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | present | that | stories = story | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | feel | infinitive | stories = story not said here | common property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | does | present | stories = story | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:7.
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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