Adverts, slogans and polls, sentence 16

Canvassing means volunteers going door to door to talk to voters and hear what they care about.

Who acts: volunteers · What happens: canvass, mean, go, talk, hear, care · To what, where: door · 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 (volunteers), 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	Canvassing	canvass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	volunteers	volunteer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 going	nsubj
4	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	ccomp
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 going	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 door	case
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 door	nmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 talk	mark
9	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 going	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 voters	case
11	voters	voter	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 talk	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hear	cc
13	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 talk	conj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 hear	obj
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 care	nsubj
16	care	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 what	acl:relcl
17	about	about	ADV	_	16 care	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	canvass	gerund				vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go	gerund	volunteers	door	to door	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
4	talk	to-infinitive	volunteers not said here		to voters	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to voter=Co-Agent
5	hear	infinitive	volunteers not said here			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
6	care	present	volunteers = volunteer		about property	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: 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:16.

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 ×2, 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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