--- title: Some say act fast, because waiting makes it worse and costlier; othe… — Climate: hot summers and hot arguments · tree and pragmatics description: Some say act fast, because waiting makes it worse and costlier; others say go carefully, because jobs, bills and reliable power matter too. Who acts: Some, others, jobs. 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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 (Some, others, 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:6 # text = Some say act fast, because waiting makes it worse and costlier; others say go carefully, because jobs, bills and reliable power matter too. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 2 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 3 act act VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 4 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:advmod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 because because SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 waiting wait VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 nsubj _ _ 8 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advcl 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 xcomp _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 costlier costly ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 conj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:NNS:PronType=Ind 15 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 16 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 17 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 because because SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 20 jobs job NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 bills bill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 reliable reliable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 26 matter matter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 27 too too ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Some | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **act** | infinitive | | | | | | fast *property* | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **wait** | gerund | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **make** | present | | case | | | | bad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | others | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **go** | infinitive | | | | | | carefully *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **matter** | present | jobs and bills and reliable power | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | 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:021-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments.lesson:6`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4. **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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