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title: Some talk radio and TV shows stir up outrage on purpose, because ang… — Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about polit… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some talk radio and TV shows stir up outrage on purpose, because angry listeners keep listening. Who acts: talk radio, angry listeners. 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 dependency tree and the prag
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# Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics, sentence 20

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Some talk radio and TV shows stir up outrage on purpose, because angry listeners keep listening.

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**Who acts:** talk radio, angry listeners · **What happens:** stir up, keep, listen · **To what, where:** outrage, purpose

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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 (talk radio, angry listeners), 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:20
# text = Some talk radio and TV shows stir up outrage on purpose, because angry listeners keep listening.
# 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): no change
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	radio	radio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	TV	TV	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	shows	show	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	stir	stir	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	outrage	outrage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	listeners	listener	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
17	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	xcomp	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **stir up** | present | some talk radio and TV shows | outrage |  | purpose |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition outrage=Patient |
| 2 | **keep** | present | angry listeners |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **listen** | gerund | angry listeners *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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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**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:014-dad-shouting-at-the-tv-big-feelings-about-politics.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): 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/).

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