Debates and rows on chat shows, sentence 18

Bias means leaning towards one side and impartial means taking no side; tougher questions for the person already in charge are often about their record.

Who acts: Bias, impartial, tougher questions · What happens: mean, lean, take, be · To what, where: side

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 (Bias, impartial, tougher questions), 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	Bias	bias	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	leaning	lean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	xcomp
4	towards	towards	ADP	_	6 side	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 side	nummod
6	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leaning	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 means	cc
8	impartial	impartial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 means	nsubj
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	conj
10	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 means	xcomp
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 side	det
12	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taking	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct
14	tougher	tough	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 questions	amod
15	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 record	nsubj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 person	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 person	det
18	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 questions	nmod
19	already	already	ADV	_	21 charge	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 charge	case
21	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 person	nmod
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 record	cop
23	often	often	ADV	_	26 record	advmod
24	about	about	ADP	_	26 record	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 record	nmod:poss
26	record	record	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	parataxis
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Bias			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lean not said to happen	gerund	Bias not said here		towards one side	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	mean	present	impartial			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take not said to happen	gerund	impartial not said here	no side		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Theme
5	is	present	tougher questions for the person in charge		about questions's record; often property	tree rules

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:18.

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.

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