Adverts, slogans and polls, sentence 12

An opinion poll asks around one or two thousand people chosen to match the country by age, place and more; it gives a good guess, not a sure answer.

Who acts: opinion poll, country · What happens: ask around, choose, match, give · To what, where: one people, country, good guess

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 (opinion poll, country), 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 poll	det
2	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poll	compound
3	poll	poll	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asks	nsubj
4	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	around	around	ADV	_	6 one	advmod
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 people	nummod
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 one	cc
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 thousand	compound
9	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 one	conj
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 asks	obj
11	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 people	acl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 match	mark
13	match	match	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 chosen	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 country	det
15	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 match	obj
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 age	case
17	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 match	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 place	punct
19	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 age	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 more	cc
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 age	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 gives	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 gives	nsubj
24	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 asks	parataxis
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 guess	det
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 guess	amod
27	guess	guess	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gives	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 answer	punct
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 answer	advmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 answer	det
31	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 answer	amod
32	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 guess	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 asks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	ask around speech: ask	present	a opinion poll		one people		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient
2	choose	participle		one people not said here			tree rules
3	match	to-infinitive		the country		by age and place	vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Patient
4	give	present	country	a good guess and a sure answer			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guess=Theme

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:12.

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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×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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