Putting it together: explain each side, check the claim, sentence 10

Cartoons and comedy exaggerate politicians on purpose to make people laugh and think; real politicians differ, and some are good at their jobs while others are not.

Who acts: Cartoons, people, real politicians, some, politicians · What happens: exaggerate, make, laugh, think, differ, be · To what, where: politicians, purpose, people, jobs

This is a sentence of the lesson «Putting it together: explain each side, check the claim» 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 (Cartoons, people, real politicians, some), 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	Cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 exaggerate	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 comedy	cc
3	comedy	comedy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cartoons	conj
4	exaggerate	exaggerate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	politicians	politician	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 exaggerate	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 purpose	case
7	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 exaggerate	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 make	mark
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 exaggerate	advcl
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 make	obj
11	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 make	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 think	cc
13	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 laugh	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 differ	punct
15	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 politicians	amod
16	politicians	politician	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 differ	nsubj
17	differ	differ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 exaggerate	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 good	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 good	cc
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 good	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 good	cop
22	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 exaggerate	conj
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 jobs	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 jobs	nmod:poss
25	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 good	obl
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	28 are	mark
27	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 not	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 not	cop
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 good	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 exaggerate	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	exaggerate	present	Cartoons and comedy	politicians	purpose		tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive	Cartoons and comedy not said here	people			tree rules
3	laugh	infinitive	people not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other	infinitive	people not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	differ	present	real politicians				vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	some		politicians's jobs	good property	tree rules
7	job		politicians = politician				nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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:040-putting-it-together.lesson:10.

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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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