Debating and discussion, sentence 15
Politicians, lawyers and scientists all use debate skills, and arguing respectfully is a skill, not bad behaviour.
Who acts: Politicians, arguing · What happens: use, argue, be · To what, where: debate skills, skill
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 (Politicians, arguing), 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 | Politicians | politician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 use | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lawyers | punct |
| 3 | lawyers | lawyer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Politicians | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 scientists | cc |
| 5 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Politicians | conj |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 use | advmod |
| 7 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | debate | debate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 skills | compound |
| 9 | skills | skill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 use | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 skill | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 skill | cc |
| 12 | arguing | argue | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 skill | csubj |
| 13 | respectfully | respectfully | ADV | _ | 12 arguing | advmod |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 skill | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 skill | det |
| 16 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Politicians | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 behaviour | punct |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 bad | advmod |
| 19 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 behaviour | amod |
| 20 | behaviour | behaviour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 skill | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 skill | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | Politicians and lawyers and scientists | debate skills | all property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Patient | |||
| 2 | argue speech: disagree | gerund | respectfully property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | arguing | a skill and bad behaviour | 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, 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:15.
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 ×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.
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