--- title: Explaining each side is like a referee who knows both teams' tactics… — Putting it together: explain each side, check th… · tree and pragmatics description: Explaining each side is like a referee who knows both teams' tactics without wearing either shirt: a sugar tax, an age limit for social media, how to end a war, each has people who think hard and disagree. Who acts: Explaining, referee, each, people. 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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 (Explaining, referee, each, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:040-putting-it-together.lesson:3 # text = Explaining each side is like a referee who knows both teams' tactics without wearing either shirt: a sugar tax, an age limit for social media, how to end a war, each has people who think hard and disagree. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 040-putting-it-together.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): no change 1 Explaining explain VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 csubj _ _ 2 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 3 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 referee referee NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 11 det _ _ 11 teams team NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 ' 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 tactics tactic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 14 without without SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 wearing wear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 16 either either DET DT PronType=Ind 17 det _ _ 17 shirt shirt NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 tax tax NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 limit limit NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 social social ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 media media NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 advmod _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 end end VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 parataxis _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 37 nsubj _ _ 37 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 38 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 39 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 40 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 41 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 40 advmod _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 disagree disagree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 conj _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **explain** *speech: assert* | gerund | | each side | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Topic | | 2 | **is** | present | Explaining | | | | | like a referee and a sugar tax and a age limit for social media | tree rules | | 3 | **know** | present | a referee and a sugar tax and a age limit for social media | both teams's tactics | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer tactic=Stimulus | | 4 | **wear** | gerund | a referee and a sugar tax and a age limit for social media *not said here* | either shirt | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shirt=Theme | | 5 | **end** | to-infinitive | | a war | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality war=Eventuality | | 6 | **have** | present | each | people | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | | 7 | **think** *speech: other* | present | people | | | | | hard *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **disagree** | present | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «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:040-putting-it-together.lesson:3`. **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): no change. **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: [Putting it together: explain each side…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/40-putting-it-together/2/) - next →: [Putting it together: explain each side…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/40-putting-it-together/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/40-putting-it-together/)