Debates and rows on chat shows, sentence 20
In a real argument you give reasons; a personal attack goes after the person instead of the idea and proves nothing.
Who acts: you, personal attack · What happens: give, go, prove · To what, where: reasons, real argument, nothing
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, personal attack), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 argument | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 argument | det |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 argument | amod |
| 4 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 give | nsubj |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 give | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 goes | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 attack | det |
| 10 | personal | personal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 attack | amod |
| 11 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 goes | nsubj |
| 12 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | parataxis |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 person | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 person | det |
| 15 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 goes | obl |
| 16 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 19 idea | advmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 idea | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 idea | det |
| 19 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 goes | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 proves | cc |
| 21 | proves | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 goes | conj |
| 22 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 21 proves | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | you | reasons | a real argument | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | present | a personal attack | after the person | of the idea | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of idea=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | prove | present | a personal attack not said here | nothing | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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:20.
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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