--- title: In a democracy people choose their leaders by voting, and those lead… — What politics is: deciding things together · tree and pragmatics description: In a democracy people choose their leaders by voting, and those leaders make the laws, so a law people dislike can be changed. Who acts: people, leaders. 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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 (people, leaders), 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:11 # text = In a democracy people choose their leaders by voting, and those leaders make the laws, so a law people dislike can be changed. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 democracy democracy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 choose choose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 leaders leader NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 9 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:case 9 voting voting NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 13 det _ _ 13 leaders leader NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 21 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 dislike dislike VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 changed change VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **choose** | present | people | People's leaders voting | | a democracy | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leader=Theme | | 2 | **make** | present | that leaders | the laws | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset law=Product | | 3 | **dislike** | present | people | a law *not said here* | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer law=Stimulus | | 4 | **change** | can · passive | | a law | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:11`. **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, 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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