Debates and rows on chat shows, sentence 10

A studio audience is made of ordinary voters; their cheers and boos are heard at home and can make an answer seem better or worse than it was.

Who acts: answer, voters · What happens: make, hear, seem, be, cheer · To what, where: studio audience, cheers, home

This is a sentence of the lesson «Debates and rows on chat shows» of the politics 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 (answer, voters), 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	3 audience	det
2	studio	studio	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 audience	compound
3	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 voters	case
7	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 voters	amod
8	voters	voter	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 heard	punct
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 cheers	nmod:poss
11	cheers	cheer	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 heard	nsubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 boos	cc
13	boos	boo	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cheers	conj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 heard	aux:pass
15	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 made	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 home	case
17	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heard	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 heard	cc
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 make	aux
20	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 heard	conj
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 answer	det
22	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 seem	nsubj
23	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 make	xcomp
24	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 seem	xcomp
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 worse	cc
26	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 better	conj
27	than	than	SCONJ	_	29 was	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 was	nsubj
29	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 better	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		a studio audience		of ordinary voters	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	hear	present · passive		voters's cheers and boos	home		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
3	make	can					tree rules
4	seem	infinitive	a answer			good property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	be	past	answer				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	cheer		voters = voter				nom cheer «communication 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:politics:011-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows.lesson:10.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-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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