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title: A careful viewer listens for reasons, checks the claims and notices… — Debates and rows on chat shows · tree and pragmatics
description: A careful viewer listens for reasons, checks the claims and notices who is not there. Who acts: careful viewer. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Debates and rows on chat shows, sentence 7

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A careful viewer listens for reasons, checks the claims and notices who is not there.

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**Who acts:** careful viewer · **What happens:** listen, check, notice, not be · **To what, where:** claims

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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 (careful viewer), 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:7
# text = A careful viewer listens for reasons, checks the claims and notices who is not there.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	viewer	viewer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	listens	listen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	checks	check	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	claims	claim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc
12	notices	notice	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **listen** | present | a careful viewer |  |  |  |  | for reasons | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for reason=Theme |
| 2 | **check** | present | a careful viewer *not said here* | the claims |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Theme |
| 3 | **notice** | present | a careful viewer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **not** **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |

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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:7`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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