--- title: Polarisation is when people split into two sides that hardly talk to… — Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying fri… · tree and pragmatics description: Polarisation is when people split into two sides that hardly talk to each other; common ground is what both sides agree on. Who acts: Polarisation, two sides, common ground, sides. 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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 (Polarisation, two sides, common ground, sides), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:015-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends.lesson:8 # text = Polarisation is when people split into two sides that hardly talk to each other; common ground is what both sides agree on. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 015-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Polarisation polarisation NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 split split VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 into into ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 10 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 11 obl _ _ 14 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 fixed _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 conj _ _ 20 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 21 det _ _ 21 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 agree agree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 23 on on ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Polarisation | | | two sides | | split *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **talk** | present | two sides | | | | | to each; hardly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to each=Co-Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | common ground | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **agree on** *speech: agree* | present | both sides | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:015-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends.lesson:8`. **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): 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. 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