--- title: A debate has rules agreed before it starts: each person gets a set t… — Debates and rows on chat shows · tree and pragmatics description: A debate has rules agreed before it starts: each person gets a set time, and the moderator asks the questions and keeps the clock. Who acts: debate, person, moderator. 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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 (debate, person, moderator), 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:9 # text = A debate has rules agreed before it starts: each person gets a set time, and the moderator asks the questions and keeps the clock. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 debate debate NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 agreed agree VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 before before SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 11 det _ _ 11 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 set set NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 moderator moderator NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 clock clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a debate | rules | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient | | 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | participle | | rules *not said here* | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **start** | present | debate | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **get** | present | each person | | | | time | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | the moderator | the questions | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | | 6 | **keep** | present | the moderator *not said here* | the clock | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=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:9`. **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/). - ← previous: [Debates and rows on chat shows, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows/8/) - next →: [Debates and rows on chat shows, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows/)