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title: The motion is the topic of a debate, such as "Homework should be ban… — Debating and discussion · tree and pragmatics
description: The motion is the topic of a debate, such as "Homework should be banned". Who acts: motion. 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 clause.
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# Debating and discussion, sentence 5

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The motion is the topic of a debate, such as "Homework should be banned".

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**Who acts:** motion · **What happens:** be, ban · **To what, where:** topic, Homework · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (motion), 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:5
# text = The motion is the topic of a debate, such as "Homework should be banned".
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	motion	motion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	topic	topic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	debate	debate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
13	Homework	homework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	banned	ban	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the motion | the topic |  |  |  | of a debate | tree rules |
| 2 | **ban** *in a quote* | should · passive |  | Homework |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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:5`.

**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): R6-punct-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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