What politics is: deciding things together, sentence 11
In a democracy people choose their leaders by voting, and those leaders make the laws, so a law people dislike can be changed.
Who acts: people, leaders · What happens: choose, make, dislike, change · To what, where: leaders, democracy, laws, law
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 (people, leaders), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 democracy | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 democracy | det |
| 3 | democracy | democracy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 choose | obl |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 choose | nsubj |
| 5 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 leaders | nmod:poss |
| 7 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 choose | obj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 voting | mark |
| 9 | voting | voting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leaders | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 make | cc |
| 12 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 leaders | det |
| 13 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 make | nsubj |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 choose | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 laws | det |
| 16 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 make | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 changed | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 changed | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 law | det |
| 20 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 changed | nsubj |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 dislike | nsubj |
| 22 | dislike | dislike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 law | acl:relcl |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 changed | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 changed | aux:pass |
| 25 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 choose | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 choose | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | present | people | People's leaders voting | a democracy | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leader=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | present | that leaders | the laws | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset law=Product | ||||
| 3 | dislike | present | people | a law not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer law=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | change | can · passive | a law | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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:11.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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