Taiwan, China and the word «tensions», sentence 18

Polls in Taiwan have shown most people want to keep things as they are, neither declaring full independence nor joining China.

Who acts: Polls, most people, People · What happens: show, want, keep, be, declare, join · To what, where: things, full independence, China · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Taiwan, China and the word «tensions»» 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 (Polls, most people, People), 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	Polls	poll	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shown	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Taiwan	case
3	Taiwan	Taiwan	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Polls	nmod
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shown	aux
5	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 people	amod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 want	nsubj
8	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shown	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 keep	mark
10	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 want	xcomp
11	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 keep	obj
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 are	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 are	nsubj
14	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 keep	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 are	punct
16	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	17 declaring	cc:preconj
17	declaring	declare	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 keep	advcl
18	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 independence	amod
19	independence	independence	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 declaring	obj
20	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	21 joining	cc
21	joining	join	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 declaring	conj
22	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 joining	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shown	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	show	present · perfect	Polls in Taiwan		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want	present	most people		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	most people not said here	things	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
4	does	present	People		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	declare speech: other	gerund	most people not said here	full independence	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Attribute
6	join	gerund	most people not said here	China	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent china=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:029-taiwan-china-and-the-word-tensions.lesson:18.

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 ×4. 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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