Adverts, slogans and polls, sentence 8
Some say adverts are part of free speech; others want limits on spending so rich groups cannot drown out everyone else.
Who acts: Some, adverts, others, rich groups · What happens: say, be, want, not drown out · To what, where: part, limits, spending, everyone · 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 (Some, adverts, others, rich groups), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 say | nsubj |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | adverts | advert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 part | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 part | cop |
| 5 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 say | ccomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 speech | case |
| 7 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 speech | amod |
| 8 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 part | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 want | punct |
| 10 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 want | nsubj |
| 11 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | parataxis |
| 12 | limits | limit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 want | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 spending | case |
| 14 | spending | spending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 limits | nmod |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 rich | advmod |
| 16 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 groups | amod |
| 17 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 drown | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 drown | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 drown | advmod |
| 20 | drown | drown | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 want | ccomp |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 drown | compound:prt |
| 22 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 20 drown | obj |
| 23 | else | else | ADV | _ | 22 everyone | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Some | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | adverts | part | of free speech | tree rules | |||
| 3 | want | present | others | limits | spending | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not drown out | can | rich groups | everyone | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Patient |
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:8.
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): no change. 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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