Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics, sentence 16
Politics feels most personal when a decision touches your own job, like nurses' pay; some nurses have gone on strike to ask for more pay.
Who acts: Politics, decision, nurses, your · What happens: feel, touch, go, ask, job, pay · To what, where: own job, strike
This is a sentence of the lesson «Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics» 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 (Politics, decision, nurses, your), 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 | Politics | politics | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 2 feels | nsubj |
| 2 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 personal | advmod |
| 4 | personal | personal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 feels | xcomp |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 touches | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 decision | det |
| 7 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 touches | nsubj |
| 8 | touches | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 feels | advcl |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 job | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 job | amod |
| 11 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 touches | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pay | punct |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 pay | case |
| 14 | nurses | nurse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 pay | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 14 nurses | case |
| 16 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 touches | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 gone | punct |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 nurses | det |
| 19 | nurses | nurse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 gone | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 gone | aux |
| 21 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 feels | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 strike | case |
| 23 | strike | strike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gone | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 ask | mark |
| 25 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 gone | advcl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 pay | case |
| 27 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 pay | amod |
| 28 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ask | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 feels | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | Politics | personal property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | touch | present | a decision | your own job | like nurses's pay | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme job=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | go | present · perfect | some nurses | strike | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on strike=Location | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | some nurses not said here | for more pay | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | job | your | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | pay | nurses | nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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:014-dad-shouting-at-the-tv-big-feelings-about-politics.lesson:16.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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