Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, sentence 8
At many Australian polling places, schools and clubs sell sausages in bread to raise money; people call it the democracy sausage.
Who acts: schools, people · What happens: sell, raise, call · To what, where: sausages, many Australian polling places, money · 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 (schools, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 places | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 places | amod |
| 3 | Australian | Australian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 places | amod |
| 4 | polling | polling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 places | compound |
| 5 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sell | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 places | punct |
| 7 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sell | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 clubs | cc |
| 9 | clubs | club | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 schools | conj |
| 10 | sell | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | sausages | sausage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sell | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 bread | case |
| 13 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sausages | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 raise | mark |
| 15 | raise | raise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sell | advcl |
| 16 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 raise | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 call | punct |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 call | nsubj |
| 19 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sell | parataxis |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 call | obj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sausage | det |
| 22 | democracy | democracy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sausage | compound |
| 23 | sausage | sausage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 call | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sell | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | present | schools and clubs | sausages | many Australian polling places | in bread | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent sausage=Theme at place=Asset | ||
| 2 | raise | to-infinitive | schools and clubs not said here | money | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | present | people | money | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
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: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): 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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