Arguing politely and never calling names, sentence 7
Each party usually thinks it is helping the country, just in different ways, so people often hear only the worst version of the other side.
Who acts: party, people · What happens: think, help, hear · To what, where: country, different ways, worst version · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Arguing politely and never calling names» 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 (party, people), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 party | det |
| 2 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thinks | nsubj |
| 3 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 4 thinks | advmod |
| 4 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 helping | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 helping | aux |
| 7 | helping | help | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 thinks | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 country | det |
| 9 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 helping | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ways | punct |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 ways | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 ways | case |
| 13 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ways | amod |
| 14 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 helping | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hear | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 hear | advmod |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hear | nsubj |
| 18 | often | often | ADV | _ | 19 hear | advmod |
| 19 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thinks | parataxis |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 version | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 version | det |
| 22 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 version | amod |
| 23 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hear | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 side | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 side | det |
| 26 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 side | amod |
| 27 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 version | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thinks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | each party | usually property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | help | present · progressive | party | the country | different ways | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | hear | present | people | the worst version of the other side | often property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer version=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:039-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names.lesson:7.
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. 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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