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description: The "worm" is a moving line showing the live reactions of a small sample of viewers with dials, not the whole country. Who acts: worm, moving line, small sample. 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
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# Debates and rows on chat shows, sentence 19

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The "worm" is a moving line showing the live reactions of a small sample of viewers with dials, not the whole country.

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**Who acts:** worm, moving line, small sample · **What happens:** move, be, show, react, sample · **To what, where:** moving line, live reactions, viewers

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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 (worm, moving line, small sample), 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:19
# text = The "worm" is a moving line showing the live reactions of a small sample of viewers with dials, not the whole country.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
3	worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	live	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	reactions	reaction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	sample	sample	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	viewers	viewer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	dials	dial	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the worm | a moving line |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **show** | gerund | a moving line *not said here* | the live reactions of a small sample of viewers with dials and the whole country |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent reaction=Recipient |
| 4 | **react** |  | a small sample of viewers with dials and the whole country |  |  |  |  |  | nom reaction «process intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **sample** |  |  | viewers with dials |  |  |  |  | nom sample «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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:19`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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