Debates and rows on chat shows, sentence 17

Turning a question towards the topic you want to talk about is called pivoting; talking points are lines prepared in advance.

Who acts: you, topic, talking points · What happens: turn, want, talk, call, pivot, be · To what, where: question, topic, lines, advance · 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 (you, topic, talking points), 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	Turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 called	nsubj:pass
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 question	det
3	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turning	obj
4	towards	towards	ADP	_	6 topic	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 topic	det
6	topic	topic	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turning	obl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 want	nsubj
8	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 topic	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 talk	mark
10	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 want	xcomp
11	about	about	SCONJ	_	13 called	mark
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 called	aux:pass
13	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	pivoting	pivot	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 called	xcomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 lines	punct
16	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 points	compound
17	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lines	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 lines	cop
19	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 called	parataxis
20	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 lines	acl
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 advance	case
22	advance	advance	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 prepared	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 called	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	turn	gerund		a question	the topic	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent question=Theme towards topic=Trajectory
2	want	present	you	the topic not said here		tree rules
3	talk not said to happen	to-infinitive	the topic not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	call speech: assert	present · passive				tree rules
5	pivot	gerund				tree rules
6	talk	gerund				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a	present	talking points	lines		tree rules
8	prepare	participle		lines not said here	advance	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:17.

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 ×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.

See the release 0.4.

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