--- title: A promise made before an election can be checked afterwards: what wa… — Politicians and promises, as the news reports them · tree and pragmatics description: A promise made before an election can be checked afterwards: what was promised, what was done, and what the person says happened. Who acts: person. 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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 (person), 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:31 # text = A promise made before an election can be checked afterwards: what was promised, what was done, and what the person says happened. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 before before ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 election election NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 checked check VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 afterwards afterward ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 12 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 promised promise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 parataxis _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 18 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:cop 18 done done ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 25 nsubj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 25 happened happen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25: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 | **make** | participle | | a promise *not said here* | | | before a election | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 2 | **check** | can · passive | | a promise | | | | afterward *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · passive | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the person | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **happen** | participle | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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:everyday:442-politicians-and-promises-as-the-news-reports-them.lesson:31`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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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