US elections and the president, as reported, sentence 3
That is why the map on election night turns states red or blue: red usually means the Republicans, whose symbol is an elephant, and blue the Democrats, whose symbol is a donkey.
Who acts: That, map, red, symbol · What happens: be, turn, mean, blue · To what, where: states, Republicans, elephant, Democrats, donkey
This is a sentence of the lesson «US elections and the president, as reported» 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 (That, map, red, symbol), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 why | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | cop |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 map | det |
| 5 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turns | nsubj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 night | case |
| 7 | election | election | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 night | compound |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 map | nmod |
| 9 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | advcl:relcl |
| 10 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 turns | obj |
| 11 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 turns | xcomp |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 blue | cc |
| 13 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 red | conj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 means | punct |
| 15 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 means | nsubj |
| 16 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 15 red | goeswith |
| 17 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Republicans | det |
| 19 | Republicans | Republican | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 means | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 symbol | punct |
| 21 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 22 symbol | nmod:poss |
| 22 | symbol | symbol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 elephant | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 elephant | cop |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 elephant | det |
| 25 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Republicans | acl:relcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 blue | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 blue | cc |
| 28 | blue | blue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 means | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Democrats | det |
| 30 | Democrats | Democrat | PROPN | Number=Plur | 28 blue | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 symbol | punct |
| 32 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 33 symbol | nmod:poss |
| 33 | symbol | symbol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 donkey | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 donkey | cop |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 donkey | det |
| 36 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Democrats | acl:relcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 why | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | turn | present | the map on election night | states | red property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent state=Theme | |||
| 3 | mean | present | red | the Republicans | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent republican=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | a elephant's symbol | a elephant | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | blue | infinitive | red not said here | the Democrats | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | a donkey's symbol | a donkey | tree rules |
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:016-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported.lesson:3.
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 ×3. 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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