--- title: Turning a question towards the topic you want to talk about is calle… — Debates and rows on chat shows · tree and pragmatics description: Turning a question towards the topic you want to talk about is called pivoting; talking points are lines prepared in advance. Who acts: you, topic, talking points. 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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 (you, topic, talking points), 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:17 # text = Turning a question towards the topic you want to talk about is called pivoting; talking points are lines prepared in advance. # 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 ×1 1 Turning turn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 towards towards ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 topic topic NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 about about SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 14 pivoting pivot VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 xcomp _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 compound _ _ 17 points point NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 lines line NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj 20 prepared prepare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 advance advance NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 13 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 | **turn** | gerund | | a question | | the topic | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent question=Theme towards topic=Trajectory | | 2 | **want** | present | you | the topic *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **talk** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the topic *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **pivot** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **talk** | gerund | | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is a** | present | talking points | lines | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **prepare** | participle | | lines *not said here* | | advance | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: 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:17`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Debates and rows on chat shows, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows/16/) - next →: [Debates and rows on chat shows, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows/)