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title: Most of the arguing is not about whether it is getting warmer but ab… — Climate: hot summers and hot arguments · tree and pragmatics
description: Most of the arguing is not about whether it is getting warmer but about what to do: how fast to change cars, power stations and farms, who pays, and what happens to people whose jobs depend on oil, gas and coal. Who acts: Most, world, jobs. A sentence of the lesson «Climate: hot summers and hot argu
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# Climate: hot summers and hot arguments, sentence 4

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Most of the arguing is not about whether it is getting warmer but about what to do: how fast to change cars, power stations and farms, who pays, and what happens to people whose jobs depend on oil, gas and coal.

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**Who acts:** Most, world, jobs · **What happens:** not be, get, do, change, pay, happen · **To what, where:** fast, cars

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Climate: hot summers and hot arguments» 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 (Most, world, jobs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:021-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments.lesson:4
# text = Most of the arguing is not about whether it is getting warmer but about what to do: how fast to change cars, power stations and farms, who pays, and what happens to people whose jobs depend on oil, gas and coal.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 021-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments.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
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	arguing	arguing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
7	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	obl	_	_
12	warmer	warm	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	xcomp	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
20	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	stations	station	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	farms	farm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	35	nsubj	_	_
35	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	ccomp	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
38	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
40	depend	depend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=44:conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **not** **be** | present | Most of the arguing |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | present · progressive | world |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | world *not said here* | fast |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **change** | to-infinitive | world *not said here* | cars and power stations and farms |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Patient |
| 5 | **pay** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **happen** | present |  |  |  |  |  | to people | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **depend** | present | jobs |  |  |  |  | on oil and gas and coal | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on oil=Theme |

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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:021-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments.lesson:4`.

**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. **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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