--- title: A studio audience is made of ordinary voters; their cheers and boos… — Debates and rows on chat shows · tree and pragmatics description: A studio audience is made of ordinary voters; their cheers and boos are heard at home and can make an answer seem better or worse than it was. Who acts: answer, voters. 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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 (answer, voters), 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:10 # text = A studio audience is made of ordinary voters; their cheers and boos are heard at home and can make an answer seem better or worse than it was. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 studio studio NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 audience audience NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 voters voter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 cheers cheer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 boos boo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 21 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 seem seem VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 xcomp _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=24:cc 26 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 conj _ _ 27 than than SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:advcl 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present · passive | | a studio audience | | | | of ordinary voters | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **hear** | present · passive | | voters's cheers and boos | | home | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | | 3 | **make** | can | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **seem** | infinitive | a answer | | | | | good *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **be** | past | answer | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **cheer** | | voters *= voter* | | | | | | nom cheer «communication 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:011-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows.lesson:10`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Debates and rows on chat shows, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows/9/) - next →: [Debates and rows on chat shows, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows/)