Debates and rows on chat shows, sentence 8
You will hear the debate talked about in all sorts of voices: a "row" is a loud argument in Ireland and Britain, "the craic" is Irish for the fun or the chat, and a "zinger" is a sharp, funny line planned to make the other person look silly.
Who acts: You, debate, row, craic, zinger, other person · What happens: hear, talk about, be, plan, make, look · To what, where: debate, sorts, loud argument, Ireland, sharp funny line, other person
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, debate, row, craic), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 hear | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | aux |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 debate | det |
| 5 | debate | debate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hear | obj |
| 6 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 debate | acl |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 talked | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 sorts | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 sorts | det |
| 10 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 talked | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 voices | case |
| 12 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sorts | nmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 argument | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 row | det |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 row | punct |
| 16 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 argument | nsubj |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 row | punct |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 argument | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 argument | det |
| 20 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 argument | amod |
| 21 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 voices | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 Ireland | case |
| 23 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 argument | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Britain | cc |
| 25 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Ireland | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Irish | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 craic | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 craic | det |
| 29 | craic | craic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Irish | nsubj |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 craic | punct |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 Irish | cop |
| 32 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 argument | conj |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 fun | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 fun | det |
| 35 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Irish | obl |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 chat | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 chat | det |
| 38 | chat | chat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 fun | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 line | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 line | cc |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 zinger | det |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 zinger | punct |
| 43 | zinger | zinger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 line | nsubj |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 zinger | punct |
| 45 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 50 line | cop |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 line | det |
| 47 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 line | amod |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 sharp | punct |
| 49 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 line | amod |
| 50 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 argument | conj |
| 51 | planned | plan | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 50 line | acl:relcl |
| 52 | to | to | PART | _ | 53 make | mark |
| 53 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 51 planned | advcl |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 person | det |
| 55 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 person | amod |
| 56 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 make | obj |
| 57 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 53 make | xcomp |
| 58 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 look | xcomp |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | future | You | the debate | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer debate=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | talk about | past | the debate not said here | all sorts of voices and a loud argument and a sharp funny line | about property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | is a | present | a row | a loud argument and a sharp funny line | Ireland and Britain | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | present | the craic | for the fun or the chat; irish property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | a zinger | a sharp funny line | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | plan | participle | a sharp funny line not said here | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | make | to-infinitive | the other person | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | look | infinitive | the other person not said here | silly property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | sort | voices and a loud argument and a sharp funny line | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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:8.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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