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title: Politics feels most personal when a decision touches your own job, l… — Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about polit… · tree and pragmatics
description: Politics feels most personal when a decision touches your own job, like nurses' pay; some nurses have gone on strike to ask for more pay. Who acts: Politics, decision, nurses, your. A sentence of the lesson «Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics» of the politics course of Mova's primar
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# Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics, sentence 16

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Politics feels most personal when a decision touches your own job, like nurses' pay; some nurses have gone on strike to ask for more pay.

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**Who acts:** Politics, decision, nurses, your · **What happens:** feel, touch, go, ask, job, pay · **To what, where:** own job, strike

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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, decision, nurses, your), 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:16
# text = Politics feels most personal when a decision touches your own job, like nurses' pay; some nurses have gone on strike to ask for more pay.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Politics	politics	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	2	nsubj	_	_
2	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	personal	personal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	decision	decision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	touches	touch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	nurses	nurse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	'	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	nurses	nurse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	strike	strike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	amod	_	_
28	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	.	.	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 | **feel** | present | Politics |  |  |  |  | personal *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **touch** | present | a decision | your own job |  |  |  | like nurses's pay | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme job=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **go** | present · perfect | some nurses |  |  | strike |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on strike=Location |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | some nurses *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for more pay | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **job** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **pay** |  | nurses |  |  |  |  |  | nom pay «possession 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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.

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