Parties: teams with ideas, sentence 7
The two main US parties are the Democrats and the Republicans (also called the GOP); the donkey and the elephant come from old newspaper cartoons.
Who acts: two main US parties, donkey · What happens: be, call, come · To what, where: Democrats, Republicans, old newspaper cartoons · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (two main US parties, donkey), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 parties | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 parties | nummod |
| 3 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 parties | amod |
| 4 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 parties | compound |
| 5 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Democrats | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Democrats | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Democrats | det |
| 8 | Democrats | Democrat | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Republicans | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Republicans | det |
| 11 | Republicans | Republican | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 Democrats | conj |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 called | punct |
| 13 | also | also | ADV | _ | 14 called | advmod |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 Republicans | acl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 GOP | det |
| 16 | GOP | GOP | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 called | xcomp |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 called | punct |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 donkey | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 donkey | det |
| 20 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 come | nsubj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 elephant | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 elephant | det |
| 23 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 donkey | conj |
| 24 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Democrats | parataxis |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 cartoons | case |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 cartoons | amod |
| 27 | newspaper | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cartoons | compound |
| 28 | cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 come | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Democrats | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the two main US parties | the Democrats and the Republicans | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | the Republicans not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | present | the donkey and the elephant | old newspaper cartoons | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from cartoon=Initial_Location |
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.
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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 ×2, R8-pos-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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