--- title: When candidates talk over each other, it is like both players servin… — Debates and rows on chat shows · tree and pragmatics description: When candidates talk over each other, it is like both players serving at once: the fans cheer, but nobody at home can follow the ball. Who acts: candidates, person, players, fans. 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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 (candidates, person, players, fans), 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:2 # text = When candidates talk over each other, it is like both players serving at once: the fans cheer, but nobody at home can follow the ball. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 candidates candidate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 4 over over ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 3 obl _ _ 6 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 fixed _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 like like ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 12 players player NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 13 serving serve VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 acl _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 13 obl _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 fans fan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 cheer cheer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 26 nsubj _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** | present | candidates | | | each | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | person | | | | | like both players | tree rules | | 3 | **serve** | gerund | both players *not said here* | | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **cheer** | present | the fans | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **follow** | can | both players | the ball | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme | 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:2`. **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): R6-punct-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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows/1/) - next →: [Debates and rows on chat shows, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows/)