--- title: One evening in Auckland, Ella heard two politicians say opposite thi… — Politicians and promises, as the news reports them · tree and pragmatics description: One evening in Auckland, Ella heard two politicians say opposite things about crime: one said it went up, the other said it went down. Who acts: Ella, two politicians, one, news. 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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 (Ella, two politicians, one, news), 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:8 # text = One evening in Auckland, Ella heard two politicians say opposite things about crime: one said it went up, the other said it went down. # 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 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Auckland Auckland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 Ella Ella PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 politicians politician NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 11 opposite opposite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 about about ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 crime crime NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nsubj _ _ 17 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 nsubj _ _ 24 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 ccomp _ _ 27 down down ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | Ella | | | | evening | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | two politicians | opposite things | | | | about crime | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | one | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **go up** | past | news | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the other | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **go down** | past | news | | | | | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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:8`. **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. **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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