Arguing politely and never calling names, sentence 4
Families vote different ways for many reasons, a vote can stay private, and calling a whole group "stupid" ignores all those reasons and the nice people in it.
Who acts: Families, vote, calling · What happens: vote, stay, call, ignore · To what, where: different ways, whole group, reasons · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Arguing politely and never calling names» 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 (Families, vote, calling), 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 | Families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 vote | nsubj |
| 2 | vote | vote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ways | amod |
| 4 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 vote | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 reasons | case |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 reasons | amod |
| 7 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 vote | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stay | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 vote | det |
| 10 | vote | vote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stay | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 stay | aux |
| 12 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ways | conj |
| 13 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stay | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ignores | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 calling | cc |
| 16 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 ignores | csubj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 group | det |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 group | amod |
| 19 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 calling | obj |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 stupid | punct |
| 21 | stupid | stupid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 group | appos |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 stupid | punct |
| 23 | ignores | ignore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 stay | conj |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 reasons | det:predet |
| 25 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 26 reasons | det |
| 26 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 ignores | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 people | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 people | det |
| 29 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 people | amod |
| 30 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 reasons | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 people | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 vote | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vote | present | Families | different ways | for many reasons goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent way=Theme for reason=Goal | |||
| 2 | stay | can | a vote | private property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | gerund | a whole group | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent group=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | ignore | present | calling | all reasons and the nice people in vote | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme |
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:039-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names.lesson:4.
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 ×1, R6-punct-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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