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title: Two people can use the same numbers to say opposite things by choosi… — Politicians and promises, as the news reports them · tree and pragmatics
description: Two people can use the same numbers to say opposite things by choosing different years or different parts. Who acts: Two people. 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 o
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# Politicians and promises, as the news reports them, sentence 33

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Two people can use the same numbers to say opposite things by choosing different years or different parts.

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**Who acts:** Two people · **What happens:** use, say, choose · **To what, where:** same numbers, opposite things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Two people), 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:33
# text = Two people can use the same numbers to say opposite things by choosing different years or different parts.
# 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	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	choosing	choose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	advcl	_	_
14	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **use** | can | Two people | the same numbers |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Two people *not said here* | opposite things |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
| 3 | **choose** | gerund | Two people *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:33`.

**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.

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

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