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title: On an election map the colours are the parties' colours, not good or… — Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and… · tree and pragmatics
description: On an election map the colours are the parties' colours, not good or bad places; and what a party promises is in its own published promises, not in playground talk. Who acts: colours, party, promises. A sentence of the lesson «Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs opinion» of the 
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# Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs opinion, sentence 16

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On an election map the colours are the parties' colours, not good or bad places; and what a party promises is in its own published promises, not in playground talk.

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**Who acts:** colours, party, promises · **What happens:** be, promise, publish · **To what, where:** colours, election map, own published promises

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs opinion» 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 (colours, party, promises), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:052-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion.lesson:16
# text = On an election map the colours are the parties' colours, not good or bad places; and what a party promises is in its own published promises, not in playground talk.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 052-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
4	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	'	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=11:punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
20	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	22	det	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:compound
23	promises	promise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
27	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
29	promises	promise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	playground	playground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 a** | present | the colours | the parties's colours and good places and map's own published promises and playground talk |  | a election map |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* |  | what party |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **publish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | promises |  |  | map's own published promises and playground talk |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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:052-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion.lesson:16`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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