Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends, sentence 19

People disagree whether families should talk politics at holidays or keep them politics-free.

Who acts: People, families · What happens: disagree, talk, keep · To what, where: politics, holidays, People

This is a sentence of the lesson «Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends» 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, families), 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	_	6 talk	mark
4	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 talk	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 talk	aux
6	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 disagree	ccomp
7	politics	politics	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 talk	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 holidays	case
9	holidays	holiday	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 talk	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 keep	cc
11	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 talk	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 keep	obj
13	politics	politics	NOUN	Number=Ptan	15 free	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 free	punct
15	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 keep	xcomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 disagree	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	disagree	present	People				tree rules
2	talk	should	families	politics	holidays		vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent politics=Patient
3	keep	infinitive	families not said here	People		free property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:015-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends.lesson:19.

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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