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title: Picture lunchtime with one football and two games that both want it:… — What politics is: deciding things together · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture lunchtime with one football and two games that both want it: the children shout, then vote, and the bigger group gets the ball; a country does the same thing with bigger questions, like hospitals, roads and taxes. Who acts: you, two games, children, bigger group. A sentence of the lesson «Wh
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# What politics is: deciding things together, sentence 1

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Picture lunchtime with one football and two games that both want it: the children shout, then vote, and the bigger group gets the ball; a country does the same thing with bigger questions, like hospitals, roads and taxes.

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**Who acts:** you, two games, children, bigger group, country · **What happens:** picture, want, shout, vote, get, do · **To what, where:** lunchtime, ball, same thing

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What politics is: deciding things together» of the politics 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 (you, two games, children, bigger group), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:001-what-politics-is-deciding-things-together.lesson:1
# text = Picture lunchtime with one football and two games that both want it: the children shout, then vote, and the bigger group gets the ball; a country does the same thing with bigger questions, like hospitals, roads and taxes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 001-what-politics-is-deciding-things-together.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	lunchtime	lunchtime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advmod
11	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	shout	shout	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	vote	vote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:conj
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	37	amod	_	_
37	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	like	like	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	hospitals	hospital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:appos
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	taxes	tax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | lunchtime |  |  |  | with one football and two games | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent lunchtime=Theme |
| 2 | **want** | present | two games | lunchtime |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | the children |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **vote** | infinitive | the children *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **get** | present | the bigger group | the ball |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ball=Stimulus |
| 6 | **do** | present | a country | the same thing |  |  |  | with bigger questions like hospitals and roads and taxes | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |

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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:politics:001-what-politics-is-deciding-things-together.lesson:1`.

**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 ×3, R7-rel-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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