--- title: Some people say the bigger group should always win a vote; others sa… — What politics is: deciding things together · tree and pragmatics description: Some people say the bigger group should always win a vote; others say a smaller group should sometimes get its turn, or it will always lose. Who acts: people, bigger group, others, smaller group. 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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, bigger group, others, smaller group), 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:17 # text = Some people say the bigger group should always win a vote; others say a smaller group should sometimes get its turn, or it will always lose. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 amod _ _ 6 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 7 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 9 advmod _ _ 9 win win VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 vote vote NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 amod _ _ 17 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 18 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 20 advmod _ _ 20 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 turn turn NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=20:cc 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 28 advmod _ _ 28 lose lose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | some people | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **win** | should | the bigger group | a vote | | | | always *property* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vote=Eventuality | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | others | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **get** | should | a smaller group | group's turn | | | | sometimes *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer turn=Stimulus | | 5 | **lose** | future | group | | | | | always *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=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:17`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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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