Debating and discussion, sentence 0

A debate is an argument with rules: two sides, a topic called the motion ("Homework should be banned"), turns to speak and, at the end, a vote.

Who acts: debate, topic, motion · What happens: be, call, ban, turn, speak · To what, where: argument, motion, Homework · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Debating and discussion» of the english 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 (debate, topic, motion), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 debate	det
2	debate	debate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 argument	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 argument	cop
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 argument	det
5	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 rules	case
7	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 argument	nmod
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 sides	punct
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 sides	nummod
10	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 argument	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sides	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 topic	det
13	topic	topic	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sides	nmod
14	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 topic	acl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 motion	det
16	motion	motion	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 called	obj
17	(	(	PUNCT	_	19 Homework	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 Homework	punct
19	Homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 banned	nsubj:pass
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 banned	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 banned	aux:pass
22	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 motion	acl
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 banned	punct
24	)	)	PUNCT	_	22 banned	punct
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 turns	punct
26	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 argument	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 speak	mark
28	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 turns	xcomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 vote	cc
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 and	punct
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 end	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 end	det
33	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 vote	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 end	punct
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 vote	det
36	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 turns	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 argument	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a debate	a argument and two sides a topic	with rules	tree rules
2	call speech: assert	participle	a topic not said here	the motion		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent motion=Recipient
3	ban in a quote	should · passive	the motion not said here	Homework		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	turn	present	a debate not said here			tree rules
5	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	a debate not said here			vn talk-37.5 «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, 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:english:049-debating-and-discussion.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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.

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