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title: Before an election, a candidate in Liam's town promised «a new swimm… — Politicians and promises, as the news reports them · tree and pragmatics
description: Before an election, a candidate in Liam's town promised «a new swimming pool for every school». Who acts: candidate. A sentence of the lesson «Politicians and promises, as the news reports them» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Politicians and promises, as the news reports them, sentence 0

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Before an election, a candidate in Liam's town promised «a new swimming pool for every school».

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**Who acts:** candidate · **What happens:** promise · **To what, where:** new swimming pool

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Politicians and promises, as the news reports them» of the everyday 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 (candidate), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them.lesson:0
# text = Before an election, a candidate in Liam's town promised «a new swimming pool for every school».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them.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): R6-punct-agree ×2
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	11	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	candidate	candidate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	Liam	Liam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	swimming	swimming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | a candidate in Liam's town | a new swimming pool |  |  | before a election | for every school *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent pool=Theme for school=Goal |

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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:everyday:442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them.lesson:0`.

**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): R6-punct-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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