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title: People disagree whether memes get young people interested in politic… — Memes, clips and jokes about politicians · tree and pragmatics
description: People disagree whether memes get young people interested in politics or squash big topics into jokes without facts. Who acts: People, memes. A sentence of the lesson «Memes, clips and jokes about politicians» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Memes, clips and jokes about politicians, sentence 20

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People disagree whether memes get young people interested in politics or squash big topics into jokes without facts.

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**Who acts:** People, memes · **What happens:** disagree, get, squash · **To what, where:** young people, big topics, jokes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Memes, clips and jokes about politicians» 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, memes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:013-memes-clips-and-jokes-about-politicians.lesson:20
# text = People disagree whether memes get young people interested in politics or squash big topics into jokes without facts.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 013-memes-clips-and-jokes-about-politicians.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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	_	5	mark	_	_
4	memes	meme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advcl
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	interested	interested	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	politics	politics	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	8	obl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	squash	squash	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
13	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	topics	topic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	jokes	joke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	without	without	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
19	.	.	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 | **get** | present | memes | young people |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus |
| 3 | **squash** | present | memes *not said here* | big topics |  | jokes |  | without facts | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent topic=Theme into joke=Destination |

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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:013-memes-clips-and-jokes-about-politicians.lesson:20`.

**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): 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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