--- title: Partisan means strongly supporting one side; bias means leaning towa… — Parties: teams with ideas · tree and pragmatics description: Partisan means strongly supporting one side; bias means leaning towards one side instead of being fair. Who acts: Partisan, bias. A sentence of the lesson «Parties: teams with ideas» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/) / [Parties: teams with ideas](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/) / 17 # Parties: teams with ideas, sentence 17 Partisan means strongly supporting one side; bias means leaning towards one side instead of being fair. **Who acts:** Partisan, bias · **What happens:** mean, support, lean, be · **To what, where:** one side · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Parties: teams with ideas» 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 (Partisan, bias), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:004-parties-teams-with-ideas.lesson:17 # text = Partisan means strongly supporting one side; bias means leaning towards one side instead of being fair. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 004-parties-teams-with-ideas.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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Partisan partisan NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 strongly strongly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 supporting support VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 ccomp _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 bias bias NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 10 leaning lean VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 ccomp _ _ 11 towards towards ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 17 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:case 15 of of ADP IN _ 14 fixed _ _ 16 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 cop _ _ 17 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obl 18 . . 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 | **mean** | present | Partisan | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **support** | gerund | | one side | | | | strongly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer side=Stimulus | | 3 | **mean** | present | bias | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **lean** | gerund | | | | | | towards one side | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | fair *property* | tree rules | 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:004-parties-teams-with-ideas.lesson:17`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Parties: teams with ideas, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/16/) - next →: [President and Prime Minister, White Ho…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/)