What politics is: deciding things together, sentence 17

Some people say the bigger group should always win a vote; others say a smaller group should sometimes get its turn, or it will always lose.

Who acts: people, bigger group, others, smaller group, group · What happens: say, win, get, lose · To what, where: vote, turn · 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 (people, bigger group, others, smaller 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 group	det
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 group	amod
6	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 win	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 win	aux
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 win	advmod
9	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 say	ccomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 vote	det
11	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 win	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 say	punct
13	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 say	nsubj
14	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 group	det
16	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 group	amod
17	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 get	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 get	aux
19	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	20 get	advmod
20	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 say	ccomp
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 turn	nmod:poss
22	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 get	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lose	punct
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 lose	cc
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 lose	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 lose	aux
27	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	28 lose	advmod
28	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 get	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	some people			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	win	should	the bigger group	a vote	always property	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vote=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	present	others			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	get	should	a smaller group	group's turn	sometimes property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer turn=Stimulus
5	lose	future	group		always property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=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:17.

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): R1-cc-next ×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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