Adverts, slogans and polls, sentence 14

A poll is a snapshot of today: people change their minds, some do not answer, and some who say they will vote never do; turnout means how many actually vote.

Who acts: poll, people, some, Polls, turnout, many · What happens: be, change, not answer, say, vote, not do · To what, where: snapshot, minds · 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 (poll, people, some, Polls), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 poll	det
2	poll	poll	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 snapshot	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 snapshot	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 snapshot	det
5	snapshot	snapshot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 today	case
7	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 snapshot	nmod
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 change	punct
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 change	nsubj
10	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 snapshot	parataxis
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 minds	nmod:poss
12	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 change	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 answer	punct
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 answer	nsubj
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 answer	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 answer	advmod
17	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 change	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 say	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 say	cc
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 say	nsubj
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 say	nsubj
22	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 snapshot	conj
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 vote	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 vote	aux
25	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 say	ccomp
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 do	advmod
27	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 vote	ccomp
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 means	punct
29	turnout	turnout	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 means	nsubj
30	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 vote	parataxis
31	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 many	advmod
32	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 vote	nsubj
33	actually	actually	ADV	_	34 vote	advmod
34	vote	vote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 means	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 snapshot	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a poll	a snapshot	today		tree rules
2	change	present	people	people's minds			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
3	not answer speech: assert	present · do-support	some				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	present	some				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	vote	future	Polls = poll				tree rules
6	not do	present	Polls = poll not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	mean	present	turnout				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	vote	present	many			actually property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	mind		people				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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:012-adverts-slogans-and-polls.lesson:14.

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): R7-rel-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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