--- title: Picture a TV debate as a game of tennis with words: two players, a r… — Debates and rows on chat shows · tree and pragmatics description: Picture a TV debate as a game of tennis with words: two players, a referee called the moderator, and a clock. Who acts: you, referee. A sentence of the lesson «Debates and rows on chat shows» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/) / [Debates and rows on chat shows](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows/) / 0 # Debates and rows on chat shows, sentence 0 Picture a TV debate as a game of tennis with words: two players, a referee called the moderator, and a clock. **Who acts:** you, referee · **What happens:** picture, call · **To what, where:** TV debate, moderator · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Debates and rows on chat shows» of the politics 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 (you, referee), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:011-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows.lesson:0 # text = Picture a TV debate as a game of tennis with words: two players, a referee called the moderator, and a clock. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 011-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows.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 ×2 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 TV TV NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 debate debate NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 as as ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 tennis tennis NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 players player NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 referee referee NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 18 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 moderator moderator NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obj 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 clock clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a TV debate | | | | as a game of tennis; with words and a referee | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent debate=Theme as game=Attribute | | 2 | **call** | participle | a referee *not said here* | the moderator | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:011-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows.lesson:0`. **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 ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [The news: who makes it and how, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how/16/) - next →: [Debates and rows on chat shows, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows/)