--- title: A debate is a discussion where people give reasons for different sid… — What politics is: deciding things together · tree and pragmatics description: A debate is a discussion where people give reasons for different sides; hearing good reasons and changing your mind is a strength, not a weakness. Who acts: debate, people, hearing, your. 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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 (debate, people, hearing, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:001-what-politics-is-deciding-things-together.lesson:14 # text = A debate is a discussion where people give reasons for different sides; hearing good reasons and changing your mind is a strength, not a weakness. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 001-what-politics-is-deciding-things-together.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 debate debate NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 discussion discussion NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 8 advmod _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 reasons reason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 14 hearing hear VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 csubj _ _ 15 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 reasons reason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 changing change VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 conj _ _ 19 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 weakness weakness NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:appos 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a debate | a discussion | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **give** | present | people | reasons | | | | for different sides | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent reason=Theme for side=Asset | | 3 | **hear** | gerund | | good reasons | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer reason=Stimulus | | 4 | **change** | gerund | | your mind | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | | 5 | **is a** | present | hearing | a strength and a weakness | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **mind** | | your | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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:politics:001-what-politics-is-deciding-things-together.lesson:14`. **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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