--- title: Noah's grandma watched a politician get a yes-or-no question and tal… — Politicians and promises, as the news reports them · tree and pragmatics description: Noah's grandma watched a politician get a yes-or-no question and talk for two minutes about something else. Who acts: grandma, politician. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandma, politician), 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:11 # text = Noah's grandma watched a politician get a yes-or-no question and talk for two minutes about something else. # 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): no change 1 Noah Noah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 grandma grandma NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 watched watch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 politician politician NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 9 yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 14 discourse _ _ 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 13 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 14 det _ _ 14 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 20 about about ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 16 obl _ _ 22 else else ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **watch** | past | Noah's grandma | a politician | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **get** | infinitive | a politician *not said here* | a question | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer question=Stimulus | | 3 | **talk** | infinitive | a politician *not said here* | | | | minute | about something | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about something=Topic | 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:everyday:442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them.lesson:11`. **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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