--- title: «All politicians are liars» is an exaggeration; some lie, some don't… — Politicians and promises, as the news reports them · tree and pragmatics description: «All politicians are liars» is an exaggeration; some lie, some don't, and many do a mix. Who acts: politicians, liars, some, many. 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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 (politicians, liars, some, many), 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:42 # text = «All politicians are liars» is an exaggeration; some lie, some don't, and many do a mix. # 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): R2-punct-next ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 2 All all DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 3 politicians politician NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 liars liar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 6 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 exaggeration exaggeration NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 11 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 12 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:det 12 lie lie VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 14 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 15 nsubj _ _ 15 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 nsubj _ _ 20 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 mix mix NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | all politicians | liars | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | liars | a exaggeration | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **lie** | present | some | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **do** | present | some | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **do** | present | many | a mix | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mix=Eventuality | 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:42`. **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): R2-punct-next ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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