Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends, sentence 8
Polarisation is when people split into two sides that hardly talk to each other; common ground is what both sides agree on.
Who acts: Polarisation, two sides, common ground, sides · What happens: be, talk, agree on · To what, where: two sides
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 (Polarisation, two sides, common ground, sides), 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 | Polarisation | polarisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 split | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 split | cop |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 split | advmod |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 split | nsubj |
| 5 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 sides | case |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 sides | nummod |
| 8 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 split | obl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 talk | nsubj |
| 10 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 11 talk | advmod |
| 11 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sides | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 each | case |
| 13 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 11 talk | obl |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 each | fixed |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 what | punct |
| 16 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ground | amod |
| 17 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 what | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 what | cop |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 split | conj |
| 20 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 sides | det |
| 21 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 agree | nsubj |
| 22 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 what | acl:relcl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 agree | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 split | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Polarisation | two sides | split property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | talk | present | two sides | to each; hardly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to each=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | common ground | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | agree on speech: agree | present | both sides | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: 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:015-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends.lesson:8.
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): 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.
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