What politics is: deciding things together, sentence 3

People give reasons, listen, argue, vote, and sometimes protest peacefully; in a democracy the voters choose the people who make the rules, so rules are made by people and people can change them.

Who acts: People, voters · What happens: give, listen, argue, vote, protest, choose · To what, where: reasons, people, democracy, rules

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, voters), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 give	nsubj
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 give	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 listen	punct
5	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 give	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 argue	punct
7	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 give	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 vote	punct
9	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 give	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 protest	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 protest	cc
12	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 protest	advmod
13	protest	protest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 give	conj
14	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	_	13 protest	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 choose	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 democracy	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 democracy	det
18	democracy	democracy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 choose	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 voters	det
20	voters	voter	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 choose	nsubj
21	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 give	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 people	det
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 choose	obj
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 make	nsubj
25	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 people	acl:relcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 rules	det
27	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 make	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 made	punct
29	so	so	SCONJ	_	32 made	mark
30	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 made	nsubj:pass
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 made	aux:pass
32	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 give	advcl
33	by	by	ADP	_	34 people	case
34	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 made	obl:agent
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 change	cc
36	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 change	nsubj
37	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 change	aux
38	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 made	conj
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 change	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 give	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	present	People	reasons			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	listen	present	People not said here				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	argue speech: disagree	present	People not said here				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	vote	infinitive	People not said here				vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	protest speech: disagree	present	People not said here			peacefully, sometimes property	vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	choose	present	the voters	the people	a democracy		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
7	make	present	the people	the rules			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Product
8	make	present · passive	people	rules			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product
9	change	can	people	rules = rule			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:3.

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, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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