--- title: There is no referee or score in a debate, so "winning" just means wh… — Debates and rows on chat shows · tree and pragmatics description: There is no referee or score in a debate, so "winning" just means who seemed better, and each team sends helpers to tell reporters their person won. Who acts: referee, winning, team, reporters. 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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 (referee, winning, team, reporters), 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:11 # text = There is no referee or score in a debate, so "winning" just means who seemed better, and each team sends helpers to tell reporters their person won. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 4 det _ _ 4 referee referee NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 score score NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 debate debate NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 winning winning NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 just just ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 19 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 xcomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 23 det _ _ 23 team team NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 sends send VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 25 helpers helper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:acl 28 reporters reporter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 won win VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **does** | present | no referee or score | | | a debate; there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in debate=Location | | 2 | **mean** | present | winning | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **seem** | past | | | | | | good *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **send** | present | each team | helpers | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helper=Theme | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | reporters | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **win** | past | reporters's person | | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «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:11`. **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): R5-strong ×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, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows/10/) - next →: [Debates and rows on chat shows, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows/)