--- title: A politician's record is what they have actually done; some politici… — What politics is: deciding things together · tree and pragmatics description: A politician's record is what they have actually done; some politicians break promises and some keep them, so it is better to check each one than to say they are all the same. Who acts: record, People, politicians, some. 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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 (record, People, politicians, some), 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:16 # text = A politician's record is what they have actually done; some politicians break promises and some keep them, so it is better to check each one than to say they are all the same. # 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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 politician politician NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 record record NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 actually actually ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 acl:relcl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 13 det _ _ 13 politicians politician NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 15 promises promise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 18 nsubj _ _ 18 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 csubj _ _ 27 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 28 det _ _ 28 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 than than SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 acl:relcl _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 33 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 34 all all ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 ccomp _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | a politician's record | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | present · perfect | People | | | | | actually *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **break** | present | some politicians | promises | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer promise=Patient | | 4 | **keep** | present | some | People | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **check** | to-infinitive | | each one | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | each one *not said here* | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is** | present | People | | | | | all, same *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **record** | | a politician | | | | | | nom record «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:16`. **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 ×2. **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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