What politics is: deciding things together, sentence 16

A politician's record is what they have actually done; some politicians break promises and some keep them, so it is better to check each one than to say they are all the same.

Who acts: record, People, politicians, some, politician · What happens: be, do, break, keep, check, say · To what, where: promises, People, one · 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 (record, People, politicians, some), 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 politician	det
2	politician	politician	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 record	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 politician	case
4	record	record	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 what	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 what	cop
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 done	nsubj
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 done	aux
9	actually	actually	ADV	_	10 done	advmod
10	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 what	acl:relcl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 break	punct
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 politicians	det
13	politicians	politician	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 break	nsubj
14	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 what	parataxis
15	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 break	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 keep	cc
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 keep	nsubj
18	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 break	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 keep	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 better	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	24 better	advmod
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 better	expl
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 better	cop
24	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 what	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 check	mark
26	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 better	csubj
27	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 check	obj
29	than	than	SCONJ	_	31 say	mark
30	to	to	PART	_	31 say	mark
31	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 one	acl:relcl
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 same	nsubj
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 same	cop
34	all	all	ADV	_	36 same	advmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 same	det
36	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 say	ccomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 what	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a politician's record			tree rules
2	do	present · perfect	People		actually property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	break	present	some politicians	promises		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer promise=Patient
4	keep	present	some	People		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	is	present			good property	tree rules
6	check	to-infinitive		each one		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
7	say speech: assert	to-infinitive		each one not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	is	present	People		all, same property	tree rules
9	record		a politician			nom record «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:16.

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 ×2. 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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