Debates and rows on chat shows, sentence 16
Leaders do not have to take part in debates; when one declines, a channel may show an empty podium, an "empty chair".
Who acts: Leaders, one, channel · What happens: not have, take, decline, show · To what, where: part, debates, empty podium
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 (Leaders, one, channel), 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 | Leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 have | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 take | mark |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | xcomp |
| 7 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 debates | case |
| 9 | debates | debate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 take | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 show | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 declines | advmod |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 declines | nsubj |
| 13 | declines | decline | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 show | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 channel | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 channel | det |
| 16 | channel | channel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 show | nsubj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 show | aux |
| 18 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | parataxis |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 podium | det |
| 20 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 podium | amod |
| 21 | podium | podium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 show | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 chair | punct |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 chair | det |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 chair | punct |
| 25 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 chair | amod |
| 26 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 podium | appos |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 chair | punct |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | present · do-support | Leaders | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | Leaders not said here | part | debates | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in debate=Location | |||
| 3 | decline | present | one | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | show | may | a channel | a empty podium | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent podium=Recipient |
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:16.
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): R5-strong ×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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