What politics is: deciding things together, sentence 15

Values are the things a person believes matter most, like fairness or freedom; different values lead people to want different answers.

Who acts: Values, person, different values, people · What happens: be, believe, matter, lead, want · To what, where: things, people, different answers · 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 (Values, person, different values, 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	Values	value	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 things	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 things	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 things	det
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 person	det
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 believes	nsubj
7	believes	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 things	acl:relcl
8	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 believes	ccomp
9	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 matter	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 matter	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 fairness	case
12	fairness	fairness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 matter	obl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 freedom	cc
14	freedom	freedom	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fairness	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 things	punct
16	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 values	amod
17	values	value	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 lead	nsubj
18	lead	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 things	parataxis
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 lead	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 want	mark
21	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 lead	xcomp
22	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 answers	amod
23	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 want	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 things	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Values	the things		tree rules
2	believe	present	a person	the things not said here		tree rules
3	matter	present			like fairness or freedom	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
4	lead	present	different values	people		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Patient clause=Result
5	want	to-infinitive	people not said here	different answers		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot answer=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:politics:001-what-politics-is-deciding-things-together.lesson:15.

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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