Debates and rows on chat shows, sentence 9

A debate has rules agreed before it starts: each person gets a set time, and the moderator asks the questions and keeps the clock.

Who acts: debate, person, moderator · What happens: have, agree, start, get, ask, keep · To what, where: rules, questions, clock

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 (debate, person, moderator), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 debate	det
2	debate	debate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
5	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 rules	acl
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 starts	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 starts	nsubj
8	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 agreed	advcl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 gets	punct
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 person	det
11	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gets	nsubj
12	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 time	det
14	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 time	compound
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gets	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 asks	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 asks	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 moderator	det
19	moderator	moderator	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 asks	nsubj
20	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 gets	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 questions	det
22	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 asks	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 keeps	cc
24	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 asks	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 clock	det
26	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 keeps	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	have	present	a debate	rules		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient
2	agree speech: agree	participle		rules not said here		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	start	present	debate			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	get	present	each person		time	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	ask speech: ask	present	the moderator	the questions		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
6	keep	present	the moderator not said here	the clock		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=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:9.

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): no change. 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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