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title: Politicians, lawyers and scientists all use debate skills, and argui… — Debating and discussion · tree and pragmatics
description: Politicians, lawyers and scientists all use debate skills, and arguing respectfully is a skill, not bad behaviour. Who acts: Politicians, arguing. A sentence of the lesson «Debating and discussion» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Debating and discussion, sentence 15

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Politicians, lawyers and scientists all use debate skills, and arguing respectfully is a skill, not bad behaviour.

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**Who acts:** Politicians, arguing · **What happens:** use, argue, be · **To what, where:** debate skills, skill

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Debating and discussion» of the english 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 (Politicians, arguing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:049-debating-and-discussion.lesson:15
# text = Politicians, lawyers and scientists all use debate skills, and arguing respectfully is a skill, not bad behaviour.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 049-debating-and-discussion.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Politicians	politician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	lawyers	lawyer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	debate	debate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	skills	skill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	arguing	argue	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	csubj	_	_
13	respectfully	respectfully	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:parataxis
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | Politicians and lawyers and scientists | debate skills |  |  |  | all *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Patient |
| 2 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | respectfully *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | arguing | a skill and bad behaviour |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:english:049-debating-and-discussion.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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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