Climate: hot summers and hot arguments, sentence 6

Some say act fast, because waiting makes it worse and costlier; others say go carefully, because jobs, bills and reliable power matter too.

Who acts: Some, others, jobs · What happens: say, act, wait, make, go, matter · To what, where: case · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Climate: hot summers and hot arguments» 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 (Some, others, jobs), 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	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 say	ccomp
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 act	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 makes	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 makes	mark
7	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 makes	nsubj
8	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 act	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 makes	obj
10	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 makes	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 costlier	cc
12	costlier	costly	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 worse	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 say	punct
14	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 say	nsubj
15	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	parataxis
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 say	ccomp
17	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	16 go	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 jobs	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 matter	mark
20	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 matter	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bills	punct
22	bills	bill	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 jobs	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 power	cc
24	reliable	reliable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 power	amod
25	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 jobs	conj
26	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 go	advcl
27	too	too	ADV	_	26 matter	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Some			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	act	infinitive			fast property	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wait	gerund				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	make	present		case	bad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
5	say speech: assert	present	others			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	go	infinitive			carefully property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	matter	present	jobs and bills and reliable power			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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:021-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments.lesson:6.

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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4. 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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