Parties: teams with ideas, sentence 8

The left often wants more government spending on shared services and more equality; the right often wants lower taxes, smaller government and tradition; most people hold a mix of views.

Who acts: left, right, most people · What happens: want, share, hold · To what, where: more government spending, shared services, lower taxes, mix

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 (left, right, most 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 left	det
2	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wants	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 wants	advmod
4	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 spending	amod
6	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spending	compound
7	spending	spending	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wants	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 services	case
9	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 services	amod
10	services	service	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 spending	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 equality	cc
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 equality	amod
13	equality	equality	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spending	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 right	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 right	det
16	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wants	nsubj
17	often	often	ADV	_	18 wants	advmod
18	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wants	parataxis
19	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 taxes	amod
20	taxes	tax	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 wants	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 government	punct
22	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 government	amod
23	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 taxes	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 tradition	cc
25	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 government	conj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 hold	punct
27	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 people	amod
28	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hold	nsubj
29	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 wants	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 mix	det
31	mix	mix	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hold	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 views	case
33	views	view	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 mix	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wants	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	present	the left	more government spending and more equality	shared services	often property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot spending=Theme
2	share	participle					tree rules
3	want	present	the right	lower taxes and smaller government and tradition		often property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot tax=Theme
4	hold	present	most people	a mix of views			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mix=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:8.

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. 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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