Debates and rows on chat shows, sentence 2

When candidates talk over each other, it is like both players serving at once: the fans cheer, but nobody at home can follow the ball.

Who acts: candidates, person, players, fans · What happens: talk, be, serve, cheer, follow · To what, where: each, ball

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 (candidates, person, players, fans), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 talk	advmod
2	candidates	candidate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 talk	nsubj
3	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 follow	advcl
4	over	over	ADP	_	5 each	case
5	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	3 talk	obl
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 each	fixed
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 talk	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 players	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 players	cop
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 players	case
11	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	12 players	det
12	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 follow	nsubj
13	serving	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 players	acl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 once	case
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 serving	obl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 cheer	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fans	det
18	fans	fan	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 cheer	nsubj
19	cheer	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 serving	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 follow	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 nobody	cc
22	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	26 follow	nsubj
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 home	case
24	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 nobody	nmod
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 follow	aux
26	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ball	det
28	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 follow	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 follow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	talk	present	candidates		each		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	person			like both players	tree rules
3	serve	gerund	both players not said here				vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
4	cheer	present	the fans				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	follow	can	both players	the ball			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=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:2.

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): R6-punct-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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