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title: You will hear the debate talked about in all sorts of voices: a "row… — Debates and rows on chat shows · tree and pragmatics
description: You will hear the debate talked about in all sorts of voices: a "row" is a loud argument in Ireland and Britain, "the craic" is Irish for the fun or the chat, and a "zinger" is a sharp, funny line planned to make the other person look silly. Who acts: You, debate, row, craic. A sentence of the lesso
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# Debates and rows on chat shows, sentence 8

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You will hear the debate talked about in all sorts of voices: a "row" is a loud argument in Ireland and Britain, "the craic" is Irish for the fun or the chat, and a "zinger" is a sharp, funny line planned to make the other person look silly.

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**Who acts:** You, debate, row, craic, zinger, other person · **What happens:** hear, talk about, be, plan, make, look · **To what, where:** debate, sorts, loud argument, Ireland, sharp funny line, other person

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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 (You, debate, row, craic), 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:8
# text = You will hear the debate talked about in all sorts of voices: a "row" is a loud argument in Ireland and Britain, "the craic" is Irish for the fun or the chat, and a "zinger" is a sharp, funny line planned to make the other person look silly.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	debate	debate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	argument	argument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	craic	craic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	chat	chat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	_
43	zinger	zinger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
44	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	43	punct	_	_
45	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
47	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
49	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
51	planned	plan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=50:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
53	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=51:xcomp
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
57	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	xcomp	_	_
58	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	xcomp	_	_
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **hear** | future | You | the debate |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer debate=Stimulus |
| 2 | **talk about** | past | the debate *not said here* |  |  | all sorts of voices and a loud argument and a sharp funny line |  | about *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a row | a loud argument and a sharp funny line |  | Ireland and Britain |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | the craic |  |  |  |  | for the fun or the chat; irish *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | a zinger | a sharp funny line |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **plan** | participle |  | a sharp funny line *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | the other person |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **look** | infinitive | the other person *not said here* |  |  |  |  | silly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 9 | **sort** |  |  | voices and a loud argument and a sharp funny line |  |  |  |  | nom sort «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:8`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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