Adverts, slogans and polls, sentence 11
An attack ad criticises the other candidate instead of praising your own, often with the worst photo and gloomy music; this is called negative campaigning.
Who acts: attack ad · What happens: criticise, praise, call · To what, where: other candidate, own, this · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (attack ad), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ad | det |
| 2 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ad | compound |
| 3 | ad | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 criticises | nsubj |
| 4 | criticises | criticise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 candidate | det |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 candidate | amod |
| 7 | candidate | candidate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 criticises | obj |
| 8 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 10 praising | mark |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 instead | fixed |
| 10 | praising | praise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 criticises | advcl |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 own | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 praising | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 photo | punct |
| 14 | often | often | ADV | _ | 18 photo | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 photo | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 photo | det |
| 17 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 photo | amod |
| 18 | photo | photo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 praising | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 music | cc |
| 20 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 music | amod |
| 21 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 photo | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 called | punct |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 called | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 called | aux:pass |
| 25 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 criticises | parataxis |
| 26 | negative | negative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 campaigning | amod |
| 27 | campaigning | campaigning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 called | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 criticises | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | criticise | present | a attack ad | the other candidate | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | praise | gerund | a attack ad not said here | your own | with the worst photo and gloomy music | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent own=Theme | |||
| 3 | call | present · passive | this | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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:11.
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, 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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