Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winning, sentence 13
A campaign is everything a candidate does to win votes, like posters, speeches and knocking on doors (canvassing); damaging someone's poster is wrong even if you disagree.
Who acts: campaign, candidate, doors, damaging, you, someone · What happens: be, do, win, knock, canvass, damaging · To what, where: everything, votes, doors, poster
This is a sentence of the lesson «Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winning» 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 (campaign, candidate, doors, damaging), 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 campaign | det |
| 2 | campaign | campaign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 everything | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 everything | cop |
| 4 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 candidate | det |
| 6 | candidate | candidate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 does | nsubj |
| 7 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 everything | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 win | mark |
| 9 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 does | advcl |
| 10 | votes | vote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 win | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 posters | punct |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 posters | case |
| 13 | posters | poster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 win | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 speeches | punct |
| 15 | speeches | speech | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 posters | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 knocking | cc |
| 17 | knocking | knock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 win | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 doors | case |
| 19 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 knocking | obl |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 canvassing | punct |
| 21 | canvassing | canvass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 doors | acl |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 canvassing | punct |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 wrong | punct |
| 24 | damaging | damaging | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 wrong | csubj |
| 25 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 27 poster | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 someone | case |
| 27 | poster | poster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 damaging | obj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 wrong | cop |
| 29 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 everything | parataxis |
| 30 | even | even | ADV | _ | 33 disagree | advmod |
| 31 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 33 disagree | mark |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 disagree | nsubj |
| 33 | disagree | disagree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 wrong | advcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 everything | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a campaign | everything | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | present | a candidate | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | win | to-infinitive | a candidate not said here | votes | like posters and speeches | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vote=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | knock | gerund | a candidate not said here | doors | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on door=Location | ||||
| 5 | canvass | gerund | doors not said here | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | damaging | gerund | someone's poster | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | is | present | damaging | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | disagree a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | post | someone | nom poster «communication 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:002-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning.lesson:13.
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 ×3, 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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