Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, sentence 17
People argue about these systems: some say ranking and MMP are fairer, others say they are slower, more complicated, or give small parties too much power.
Who acts: People, some, ranking, others · What happens: argue, say, be, give · To what, where: much power, small parties · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand» 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 (People, some, ranking, others), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 argue | nsubj |
| 2 | argue | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 systems | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 systems | det |
| 5 | systems | system | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 argue | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 say | nsubj |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 argue | parataxis |
| 9 | ranking | ranking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fairer | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 MMP | cc |
| 11 | MMP | MMP | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ranking | conj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 fairer | cop |
| 13 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 say | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 say | punct |
| 15 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 say | nsubj |
| 16 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 say | conj |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 slower | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 slower | cop |
| 19 | slower | slow | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 say | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 complicated | punct |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 complicated | advmod |
| 22 | complicated | complicated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 slower | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 give | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 give | cc |
| 25 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 slower | conj |
| 26 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 parties | amod |
| 27 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 give | iobj |
| 28 | too | too | ADV | _ | 29 much | advmod |
| 29 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 power | amod |
| 30 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 give | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 argue | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | argue speech: disagree | present | People | about this systems | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about system=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | some | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | ranking and MMP | fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | others | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | present | ranking | slow property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | ranking not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | give | present | ranking not said here | much power | small parties | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent party=Recipient power=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:009-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand.lesson:17.
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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