Adverts, slogans and polls, sentence 0

Before an election, candidates try to get noticed the way a new cereal does: adverts, catchy slogans, posters, signs on lawns and big cheering rallies.

Who acts: candidates, way, new cereal · What happens: try, get, notice, do, cheer · To what, where: way

This is a sentence of the lesson «Adverts, slogans and polls» 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 (candidates, way, new cereal), 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	Before	before	ADP	_	3 election	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 election	det
3	election	election	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 try	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 election	punct
5	candidates	candidate	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 try	nsubj
6	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 get	mark
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 try	xcomp
9	noticed	notice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 get	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 way	det
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obl:unmarked
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 cereal	det
13	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cereal	amod
14	cereal	cereal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 does	nsubj
15	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 way	acl:relcl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 adverts	punct
17	adverts	advert	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 way	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 slogans	punct
19	catchy	catchy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 slogans	amod
20	slogans	slogan	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 adverts	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 posters	punct
22	posters	poster	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 adverts	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 signs	punct
24	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 adverts	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 lawns	case
26	lawns	lawn	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 signs	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 rallies	cc
28	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 rallies	amod
29	cheering	cheer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 rallies	amod
30	rallies	rally	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 adverts	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 try	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	try	present	candidates		before a election	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	candidates not said here	the way		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	notice	participle	the way not said here			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	do	present	a new cereal	the way not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality
5	cheer	gerund				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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:012-adverts-slogans-and-polls.lesson:0.

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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