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title: What politicians say in public is often recorded, so «I never said t… — Politicians and promises, as the news reports them · tree and pragmatics
description: What politicians say in public is often recorded, so «I never said that» can be checked. Who acts: politicians, 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 of every c
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# Politicians and promises, as the news reports them, sentence 40

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What politicians say in public is often recorded, so «I never said that» can be checked.

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**Who acts:** politicians, people · **What happens:** say, record, not say, check · **To what, where:** public, that · **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 (politicians, 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:40
# text = What politicians say in public is often recorded, so «I never said that» can be checked.
# 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	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	obj	_	_
2	politicians	politician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	csubj:pass	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	often	often	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	recorded	record	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	csubj:pass	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	PronType=Dem	14	obj	_	_
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	checked	check	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | politicians |  |  | public |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent what=Theme in public=Manner |
| 2 | **record** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | people | that |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic |
| 4 | **check** | can · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP» |

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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:40`.

**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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