Memes, clips and jokes about politicians, sentence 20
People disagree whether memes get young people interested in politics or squash big topics into jokes without facts.
Who acts: People, memes · What happens: disagree, get, squash · To what, where: young people, big topics, jokes
This is a sentence of the lesson «Memes, clips and jokes about politicians» 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 (People, memes), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 disagree | nsubj |
| 2 | disagree | disagree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 5 get | mark |
| 4 | memes | meme | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 get | nsubj |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 disagree | ccomp |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 people | amod |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 get | obj |
| 8 | interested | interested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 people | amod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 politics | case |
| 10 | politics | politics | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 8 interested | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 squash | cc |
| 12 | squash | squash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | conj |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 topics | amod |
| 14 | topics | topic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 squash | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 jokes | case |
| 16 | jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 squash | obl |
| 17 | without | without | ADP | _ | 18 facts | case |
| 18 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 squash | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 disagree | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disagree | present | People | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get | present | memes | young people | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | squash | present | memes not said here | big topics | jokes | without facts | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent topic=Theme into joke=Destination |
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:013-memes-clips-and-jokes-about-politicians.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, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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