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title: People disagree whether moderators should cut microphones when time… — Debates and rows on chat shows · tree and pragmatics
description: People disagree whether moderators should cut microphones when time is up, check facts live, or let the back and forth run. Who acts: People, moderators, time. 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 p
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# Debates and rows on chat shows, sentence 21

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People disagree whether moderators should cut microphones when time is up, check facts live, or let the back and forth run.

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**Who acts:** People, moderators, time · **What happens:** disagree, cut, be, check, let · **To what, where:** microphones, facts, back

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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 (People, moderators, time), 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:21
# text = People disagree whether moderators should cut microphones when time is up, check facts live, or let the back and forth run.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	disagree	disagree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	moderators	moderator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	microphones	microphone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	up	up	ADV	RB	_	6	advcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
13	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	live	live	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	20	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod
23	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disagree** | present | People |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cut** | should | moderators | microphones |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset microphone=Product |
| 3 | **is** | present | time |  |  |  |  | up *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **check** | infinitive | moderators *not said here* | facts |  |  |  | live *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Theme |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive | moderators *not said here* | the back |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Theme |

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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:21`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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/).

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