What politics is: deciding things together, sentence 1
Picture lunchtime with one football and two games that both want it: the children shout, then vote, and the bigger group gets the ball; a country does the same thing with bigger questions, like hospitals, roads and taxes.
Who acts: you, two games, children, bigger group, country · What happens: picture, want, shout, vote, get, do · To what, where: lunchtime, ball, same thing
This is a sentence of the lesson «What politics is: deciding things together» 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 (you, two games, children, bigger group), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | lunchtime | lunchtime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 football | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 football | nummod |
| 5 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lunchtime | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 games | cc |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 games | nummod |
| 8 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 football | conj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 want | nsubj |
| 10 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 want | nsubj |
| 11 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 games | acl:relcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 want | obj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 shout | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 children | det |
| 15 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 shout | nsubj |
| 16 | shout | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 lunchtime | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 vote | punct |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 vote | advmod |
| 19 | vote | vote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 shout | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 gets | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 gets | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 group | det |
| 23 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 group | amod |
| 24 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gets | nsubj |
| 25 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 shout | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 ball | det |
| 27 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gets | obj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 does | punct |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 country | det |
| 30 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 does | nsubj |
| 31 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 gets | parataxis |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 thing | det |
| 33 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 thing | amod |
| 34 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 does | obj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 questions | case |
| 36 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 37 questions | amod |
| 37 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 thing | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 hospitals | punct |
| 39 | like | like | ADP | _ | 40 hospitals | case |
| 40 | hospitals | hospital | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 questions | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 roads | punct |
| 42 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 hospitals | conj |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 taxes | cc |
| 44 | taxes | tax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 hospitals | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | lunchtime | with one football and two games | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent lunchtime=Theme | |||
| 2 | want | present | two games | lunchtime | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shout speech: express | present | the children | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | vote | infinitive | the children not said here | then | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | get | present | the bigger group | the ball | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ball=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | do | present | a country | the same thing | with bigger questions like hospitals and roads and taxes | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
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:001-what-politics-is-deciding-things-together.lesson:1.
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 ×3, R7-rel-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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