--- title: A candidate is a person trying to be chosen; voters often ask whethe… — What politics is: deciding things together · tree and pragmatics description: A candidate is a person trying to be chosen; voters often ask whether a candidate's promise can really happen, not just whether it sounds nice. Who acts: candidate, person, voters, promise. 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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 (candidate, person, voters, promise), 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:10 # text = A candidate is a person trying to be chosen; voters often ask whether a candidate's promise can really happen, not just whether it sounds nice. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 candidate candidate NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 trying try VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 acl _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 8 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 chosen choose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 xcomp _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 voters voter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 12 often often ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 14 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 candidate candidate NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 really really ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 24 just just ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 25 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 28 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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** | present | a candidate | a person | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **try** | gerund | a person *not said here* | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **choose** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | a person *not said here* | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | voters | | | | | often *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **happen** | can | a candidate's promise | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **not** **sound** | present | promise | | | | | nice *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **promise** | | a candidate | | | | | | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:politics:001-what-politics-is-deciding-things-together.lesson:10`. **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): 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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