--- title: Think of deciding on a class trip: the teacher can choose alone, a f… — Who decides: kings, councils, republics and demo… · tree and pragmatics description: Think of deciding on a class trip: the teacher can choose alone, a few class reps can choose, or everyone can vote in secret so nobody is bullied. Who acts: you, teacher, few class reps, everyone. 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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 (you, teacher, few class reps, everyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:067-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies.lesson:5 # text = Think of deciding on a class trip: the teacher can choose alone, a few class reps can choose, or everyone can vote in secret so nobody is bullied. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 067-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies.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): R5-strong ×1 1 Think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 of of SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 3 deciding decide VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 trip trip NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 13 alone alone ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:amod 17 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 reps rep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 25 nsubj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 28 so so SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 bullied bully VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 advcl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **decide** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | on a class trip | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on trip=Topic | | 3 | **choose** | can | the teacher | | | | | alone *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **choose** | can | a few class reps | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **vote** | can | everyone | | | secret | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **bully** | present · passive | | nobody | | | | | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | 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:history:067-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies.lesson:5`. **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): R5-strong ×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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