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title: «Tensions» means a situation is tight and worried, like a rubber ban… — Taiwan, China and the word «tensions» · tree and pragmatics
description: «Tensions» means a situation is tight and worried, like a rubber band pulled hard but not snapped. Who acts: «, situation. A sentence of the lesson «Taiwan, China and the word «tensions»» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Taiwan, China and the word «tensions», sentence 0

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«Tensions» means a situation is tight and worried, like a rubber band pulled hard but not snapped.

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**Who acts:** «, situation · **What happens:** mean, be, pull, not snap · **To what, where:** rubber band · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Taiwan, China and the word «tensions»» 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 («, situation), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:029-taiwan-china-and-the-word-tensions.lesson:0
# text = «Tensions» means a situation is tight and worried, like a rubber band pulled hard but not snapped.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 029-taiwan-china-and-the-word-tensions.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	«	«	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Tensions	tension	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	flat	_	_
3	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	situation	situation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	worried	worried	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	rubber	rubber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	hard	hard	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	snapped	snap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **mean** | present | « |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | a situation |  |  |  |  | like a rubber band; tight *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | a situation *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pull** | participle |  | a rubber band *not said here* |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **snap** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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:029-taiwan-china-and-the-word-tensions.lesson:0`.

**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): R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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