--- title: Before an election, leaflets with smiling faces land on the mat: eac… — Votes, parties and the people in charge · tree and pragmatics description: Before an election, leaflets with smiling faces land on the mat: each candidate explains what they promise. Who acts: leaflets, candidate. A sentence of the lesson «Votes, parties and the people in charge» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/31-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Votes, parties and the people in charge](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/31-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge/) / 2 # Votes, parties and the people in charge, sentence 2 Before an election, leaflets with smiling faces land on the mat: each candidate explains what they promise. **Who acts:** leaflets, candidate · **What happens:** smile, land, explain, promise · **To what, where:** mat · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (leaflets, candidate), 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:2 # text = Before an election, leaflets with smiling faces land on the mat: each candidate explains what they promise. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Before before ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 election election NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 leaflets leaflet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 smiling smile VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 land land VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 mat mat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nmod 13 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 15 det _ _ 15 candidate candidate NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 explains explain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 17 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 19 obj _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 promise promise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **smile** | gerund | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **land** | present | leaflets with smiling faces | | | the mat | before a election | | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on mat=Destination | | 3 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | each candidate | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present | leaflets *= leaflet* | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent what=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:031-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge.lesson:2`. **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 ×3. **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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