Votes, parties and the people in charge, sentence 2

Before an election, leaflets with smiling faces land on the mat: each candidate explains what they promise.

Who acts: leaflets, candidate · What happens: smile, land, explain, promise · To what, where: mat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Votes, parties and the people in charge» of the adult life 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 (leaflets, candidate), 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	Before	before	ADP	_	3 election	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 election	det
3	election	election	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 land	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 election	punct
5	leaflets	leaflet	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 land	nsubj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 faces	case
7	smiling	smile	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 faces	amod
8	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 leaflets	nmod
9	land	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 mat	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mat	det
12	mat	mat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 land	obl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 explains	punct
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 candidate	det
15	candidate	candidate	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 explains	nsubj
16	explains	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 land	parataxis
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 promise	obj
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 promise	nsubj
19	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 explains	ccomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 land	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	smile	gerund				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	land	present	leaflets with smiling faces	the mat	before a election	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on mat=Destination
3	explain speech: assert	present	each candidate			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	promise speech: promise	present	leaflets = leaflet			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent what=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:adult-life:031-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge.lesson:2.

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): R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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