Adverts, slogans and polls, sentence 18

Rallies fire up supporters; crowd sizes are hard to count and often argued about, and camera angles can make a crowd look bigger or smaller.

Who acts: Rallies, crowd sizes, camera angles, crowd · What happens: fire up, be, count, argue, make, look · To what, where: supporters, crowd

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 (Rallies, crowd sizes, camera angles, crowd), 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	Rallies	rally	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fire	nsubj
2	fire	fire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 fire	compound:prt
4	supporters	supporter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fire	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 hard	punct
6	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sizes	compound
7	sizes	size	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hard	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hard	cop
9	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fire	parataxis
10	to	to	PART	_	11 count	mark
11	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hard	ccomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 argued	cc
13	often	often	ADV	_	14 argued	advmod
14	argued	argue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 hard	conj
15	about	about	ADV	_	14 argued	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 make	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 make	cc
18	camera	camera	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 angles	compound
19	angles	angle	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 make	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 make	aux
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hard	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 crowd	det
23	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 make	obj
24	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 make	xcomp
25	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 look	xcomp
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 smaller	cc
27	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 bigger	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fire	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fire up	present	Rallies	supporters		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supporter=Theme
2	is	present	crowd sizes		hard property	tree rules
3	count	to-infinitive	crowd sizes not said here			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
4	argue speech: disagree	participle	crowd sizes not said here		about, often property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	make	can	camera angles	a crowd		tree rules
6	look	infinitive	a crowd not said here		big property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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:18.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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.

See the release 0.4.

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