What politics is: deciding things together, sentence 10

A candidate is a person trying to be chosen; voters often ask whether a candidate's promise can really happen, not just whether it sounds nice.

Who acts: candidate, person, voters, promise · What happens: be, try, choose, ask, happen, not sound · To what, where: person · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (candidate, person, voters, promise), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 candidate	det
2	candidate	candidate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 person	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 person	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 person	det
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 person	acl
7	to	to	PART	_	9 chosen	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 chosen	aux:pass
9	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 trying	xcomp
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 ask	punct
11	voters	voter	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ask	nsubj
12	often	often	ADV	_	13 ask	advmod
13	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 person	parataxis
14	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	21 happen	mark
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 candidate	det
16	candidate	candidate	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 promise	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 candidate	case
18	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 happen	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 happen	aux
20	really	really	ADV	_	21 happen	advmod
21	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 ask	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sounds	punct
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 sounds	advmod
24	just	just	ADV	_	27 sounds	advmod
25	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	27 sounds	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sounds	nsubj
27	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 happen	conj
28	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 sounds	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 person	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a candidate	a person		tree rules
2	try	gerund	a person not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	choose not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	a person not said here			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»
4	ask speech: ask	present	voters		often property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	happen	can	a candidate's promise			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not sound	present	promise		nice property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
7	promise		a candidate			nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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:001-what-politics-is-deciding-things-together.lesson:10.

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 ×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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