Adverts, slogans and polls, sentence 4

A poll asks one or two thousand people, picked to look like the whole country, and gives a guess with a wobble, like tasting one spoon to judge a whole pot of soup.

Who acts: poll · What happens: ask, pick, look, give, taste, judge · To what, where: one thousand people, guess, one spoon, whole pot

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), 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	3 asks	nsubj
3	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 people	nummod
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 two	cc
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 one	conj
7	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 people	nummod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 asks	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 picked	punct
10	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 people	acl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 look	mark
12	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 picked	xcomp
13	like	like	ADP	_	16 country	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 country	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 country	amod
16	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 look	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gives	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 gives	cc
19	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 asks	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 guess	det
21	guess	guess	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gives	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 wobble	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 wobble	det
24	wobble	wobble	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 guess	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 tasting	punct
26	like	like	SCONJ	_	27 tasting	mark
27	tasting	taste	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 gives	advcl
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 spoon	nummod
29	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tasting	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 judge	mark
31	judge	judge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 tasting	advcl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 pot	det
33	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 pot	amod
34	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 judge	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 soup	case
36	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 pot	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	a poll		one thousand people		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient
2	pick	participle		one thousand people not said here			tree rules
3	look	to-infinitive				like the whole country	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	give	present	a poll not said here	a guess		with a wobble	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guess=Theme
5	taste	gerund	a poll not said here	one spoon			vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme spoon=Attribute
6	judge	to-infinitive	a poll not said here	a whole pot of soup			vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent pot=Value

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:4.

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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/12-adverts-slogans-and-polls/4/