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title: Family arguments about politics are very common, because big choices… — Votes, parties and the people in charge · tree and pragmatics
description: Family arguments about politics are very common, because big choices affect everybody and people's views come from their own lives. Who acts: Family arguments, big choices, views, people. A sentence of the lesson «Votes, parties and the people in charge» of the adult life course of Mova's primary sc
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# Votes, parties and the people in charge, sentence 12

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Family arguments about politics are very common, because big choices affect everybody and people's views come from their own lives.

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**Who acts:** Family arguments, big choices, views, people · **What happens:** be, affect, come, view · **To what, where:** everybody, own lives

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Votes, parties and the people in charge» of the adult life 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 (Family arguments, big choices, views, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:031-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge.lesson:12
# text = Family arguments about politics are very common, because big choices affect everybody and people's views come from their own lives.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 031-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	Family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	arguments	argument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	politics	politics	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	2	nmod	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	choices	choice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	affect	affect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
13	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	views	view	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Family arguments about politics |  |  |  |  | common *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **affect** | present | big choices | everybody |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus everybody=Experiencer |
| 3 | **come** | present | people's views |  |  | People's own lives |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from life=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **view** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom view «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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): 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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