--- title: Policies about bins, buses and prices are political decisions, so ev… — What politics is: deciding things together · tree and pragmatics description: Policies about bins, buses and prices are political decisions, so even people who say "I don't do politics" live with the results every day. Who acts: Policies, people. 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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 (Policies, people), 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:13 # text = Policies about bins, buses and prices are political decisions, so even people who say "I don't do politics" live with the results every day. # 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 ×1 1 Policies policy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 2 about about ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 bins bin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 buses bus NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 prices price NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 political political ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 decisions decision NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 even even ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj 15 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 22 politics politics NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 21 obj _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 24 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 results result NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 28 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 29 det _ _ 29 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl:unmarked _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Policies about bins and buses and prices and political decisions *not said here* | political decisions | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | people | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | present · do-support | people | politics | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent politics=Eventuality | | 4 | **live** | present | Policies about bins and buses and prices and political decisions | | | | day | with the results | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with result=Location | 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:13`. **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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