Parties: teams with ideas, sentence 15
A whip is the person in a party who tries to make sure its members vote the party way.
Who acts: whip, party, members · What happens: be, try, make, vote · To what, where: person, party, party way
This is a sentence of the lesson «Parties: teams with ideas» 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 (whip, party, members), 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 whip | det |
| 2 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 person | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 person | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 person | det |
| 5 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 party | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 party | det |
| 8 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 person | nmod |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 tries | nsubj |
| 10 | tries | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 party | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 make | mark |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 tries | xcomp |
| 13 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 make | xcomp |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 members | nmod:poss |
| 15 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 vote | nsubj |
| 16 | vote | vote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sure | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 way | det |
| 18 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 way | compound |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 vote | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 person | 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 whip | the person | a party | tree rules | |||
| 2 | try | present | a party | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | a party not said here | sure property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | vote | present | whip's members | the party way | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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:004-parties-teams-with-ideas.lesson:15.
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): no change. 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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