--- title: Bias means leaning towards one side and impartial means taking no si… — Debates and rows on chat shows · tree and pragmatics description: Bias means leaning towards one side and impartial means taking no side; tougher questions for the person already in charge are often about their record. Who acts: Bias, impartial, tougher questions. 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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 (Bias, impartial, tougher questions), 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:18 # text = Bias means leaning towards one side and impartial means taking no side; tougher questions for the person already in charge are often about their record. # 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 Bias bias NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 leaning lean VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp 4 towards towards ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 impartial impartial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 nsubj _ _ 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 xcomp _ _ 11 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 12 det _ _ 12 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 14 tougher tough ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 amod _ _ 15 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 already already ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 23 often often ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 24 about about ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 record record NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **mean** | present | Bias | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **lean** *not said to happen* | gerund | Bias *not said here* | | | | | towards one side | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | present | impartial | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **take** *not said to happen* | gerund | impartial *not said here* | no side | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | tougher questions for the person in charge | | | | | about questions's record; often *property* | tree rules | 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:18`. **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, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows/17/) - next →: [Debates and rows on chat shows, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows/)