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title: Politics can feel like a football match to grown-ups, because the de… — Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about polit… · tree and pragmatics
description: Politics can feel like a football match to grown-ups, because the decisions touch their jobs, their bills and their families. Who acts: Politics, decisions. A sentence of the lesson «Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics, sentence 0

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Politics can feel like a football match to grown-ups, because the decisions touch their jobs, their bills and their families.

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**Who acts:** Politics, decisions · **What happens:** feel, grow, touch, job, bill · **To what, where:** jobs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics» 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 (Politics, decisions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:014-dad-shouting-at-the-tv-big-feelings-about-politics.lesson:0
# text = Politics can feel like a football match to grown-ups, because the decisions touch their jobs, their bills and their families.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 014-dad-shouting-at-the-tv-big-feelings-about-politics.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): R5-strong ×2
1	Politics	politics	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	decisions	decision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	touch	touch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	bills	bill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
25	.	.	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 | **feel** | can | Politics |  |  |  |  | like a football match; to grown ups | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like match=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **touch** | present | the decisions | decisions's jobs and decisions's bills and decisions's families |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme job=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **job** |  | decisions *= decision* |  |  |  |  |  | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **bill** |  | decisions *= decision* |  |  |  |  |  | nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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): R5-strong ×2. **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.

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