--- title: Values are the things a person believes matter most, like fairness o… — What politics is: deciding things together · tree and pragmatics description: Values are the things a person believes matter most, like fairness or freedom; different values lead people to want different answers. Who acts: Values, person, different values, 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 (Values, person, different values, 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:15 # text = Values are the things a person believes matter most, like fairness or freedom; different values lead people to want different answers. # 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 Values value NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 believes believe VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 matter matter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 9 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 8 advmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 11 like like ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 fairness fairness NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 freedom freedom NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 16 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 values value NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 lead lead VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 19 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:acl 22 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 answers answer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Values | the things | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **believe** | present | a person | the things *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **matter** | present | | | | | | like fairness or freedom | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **lead** | present | different values | people | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent people=Patient clause=Result | | 5 | **want** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | different answers | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot answer=Theme | 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:15`. **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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