Debating and discussion, sentence 5
The motion is the topic of a debate, such as "Homework should be banned".
Who acts: motion · What happens: be, ban · To what, where: topic, 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 motion | det |
| 2 | motion | motion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 topic | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 topic | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 topic | det |
| 5 | topic | topic | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 debate | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 debate | det |
| 8 | debate | debate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 topic | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 banned | punct |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 debate | amod |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 such | fixed |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 banned | punct |
| 13 | Homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 banned | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 banned | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 banned | aux:pass |
| 16 | banned | ban | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 topic | parataxis |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 banned | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 topic | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the motion | the topic | of a debate | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ban in a quote | should · passive | Homework | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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:5.
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.
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