--- title: Politicians argue on TV debates to show voters their different ideas… — Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and… · tree and pragmatics description: Politicians argue on TV debates to show voters their different ideas, and people in one family can vote differently; disagreeing about ideas is not hating each other. Who acts: Politicians, people, disagreeing. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Politicians, people, disagreeing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:052-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion.lesson:15 # text = Politicians argue on TV debates to show voters their different ideas, and people in one family can vote differently; disagreeing about ideas is not hating each other. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 052-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Politicians politician NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 TV TV NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 debates debate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl 8 voters voter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 iobj _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 ideas idea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 14 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 20 differently differently ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 22 disagreeing disagree VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 csubj _ _ 23 about about ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 ideas idea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 hating hate VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 parataxis _ _ 28 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 27 obj _ _ 29 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 fixed _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | Politicians | | | | | on TV debates | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on debate=Topic | | 2 | **show** | to-infinitive | Politicians *not said here* | Politicians's different ideas | voters | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent voter=Recipient idea=Topic | | 3 | **vote** | can | people in one family | | | | | differently *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **disagree** | gerund | | | | | | about ideas | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about idea=Topic | | 5 | **not** **hate** | present · progressive | disagreeing | each | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:052-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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