Memes, clips and jokes about politicians, sentence 14

Political cartoons make a point about the news with drawings; a caricature stretches someone's features, and leaders are often drawn as animals.

Who acts: Political cartoons, caricature, someone · What happens: make, stretch, draw, feature · To what, where: point, features, leaders

This is a sentence of the lesson «Memes, clips and jokes about politicians» 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 (Political cartoons, caricature, someone), 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	Political	political	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cartoons	amod
2	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 point	det
5	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 news	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 news	det
8	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 point	nmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 drawings	case
10	drawings	drawing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 news	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 stretches	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 caricature	det
13	caricature	caricature	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stretches	nsubj
14	stretches	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 make	parataxis
15	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 features	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 someone	case
17	features	feature	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 stretches	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 drawn	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 drawn	cc
20	leaders	leader	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 drawn	nsubj:pass
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 drawn	aux:pass
22	often	often	ADV	_	23 drawn	advmod
23	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 stretches	conj
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 animals	case
25	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 drawn	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	Political cartoons	a point	about the news with drawings	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset point=Product
2	stretch	present	a caricature	someone's features		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent feature=Patient
3	draw	present · passive		leaders	as animals; often property	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Result as animal=Attribute
4	feature		someone			nom feature «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:013-memes-clips-and-jokes-about-politicians.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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