Dad shouting at the TV: big feelings about politics, sentence 20
Some talk radio and TV shows stir up outrage on purpose, because angry listeners keep listening.
Who acts: talk radio, angry listeners · What happens: stir up, keep, listen · To what, where: outrage, purpose
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 (talk radio, angry listeners), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 radio | det |
| 2 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 radio | compound |
| 3 | radio | radio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stir | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 shows | cc |
| 5 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shows | compound |
| 6 | shows | show | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 radio | conj |
| 7 | stir | stir | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 stir | compound:prt |
| 9 | outrage | outrage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stir | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 purpose | case |
| 11 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stir | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 listening | punct |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 keep | mark |
| 14 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 listeners | amod |
| 15 | listeners | listener | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 keep | nsubj |
| 16 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stir | advcl |
| 17 | listening | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 keep | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stir | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stir up | present | some talk radio and TV shows | outrage | purpose | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition outrage=Patient | |||
| 2 | keep | present | angry listeners | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | listen | gerund | angry listeners not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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: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): 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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