Debating and discussion, sentence 9
A rebuttal answers the other side's point, which shows you listened: "You said ___, but…"
Who acts: rebuttal, point, you, other side · What happens: answer, show, listen, say, point · To what, where: point, _ · 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 (rebuttal, point, you, other side), 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 rebuttal | det |
| 2 | rebuttal | rebuttal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answers | nsubj |
| 3 | answers | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 side | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 side | amod |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 point | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 side | case |
| 8 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answers | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shows | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 shows | nsubj |
| 11 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 point | acl:relcl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 listened | nsubj |
| 13 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 shows | ccomp |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 16 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 answers | parataxis |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 20 | _ | _ | X | _ | 17 said | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 but | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 … | cc |
| 23 | … | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 answers | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | present | a rebuttal | the other side's point | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show | present | the other side's point | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | listen | past | you | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | You | _ | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent _=Topic | ||||
| 5 | point | the other side | nom point «cognition transitive»: poss=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:9.
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 ×4. 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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