Debates and rows on chat shows, sentence 12
A snap poll is a quick survey of viewers right after a debate; some say it is useful, others say it mostly shows who people liked before.
Who acts: snap poll, some, poll, others, it, people · What happens: be, say, show, like · To what, where: quick survey · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (snap poll, some, poll, others), 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 poll | det |
| 2 | snap | snap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 poll | compound |
| 3 | poll | poll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 survey | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 survey | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 survey | det |
| 6 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 survey | amod |
| 7 | survey | survey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 viewers | case |
| 9 | viewers | viewer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 survey | nmod |
| 10 | right | right | ADV | _ | 13 debate | advmod |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 debate | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 debate | det |
| 13 | debate | debate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 viewers | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 say | punct |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 say | nsubj |
| 16 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 survey | parataxis |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 useful | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 useful | cop |
| 19 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 say | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 say | punct |
| 21 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 say | nsubj |
| 22 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 say | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 shows | nsubj |
| 24 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 25 shows | advmod |
| 25 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 say | ccomp |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 liked | obj |
| 27 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 liked | nsubj |
| 28 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 shows | ccomp |
| 29 | before | before | ADV | _ | 28 liked | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 survey | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a snap poll | a quick survey | of viewers after a debate | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | some | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | poll | useful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | others | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | show | present | it | mostly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | like | past | people | before property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot who=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:politics:011-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows.lesson:12.
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 ×2, R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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