--- title: Families do small politics too: Dad wants the beach, Gran wants the… — What politics is: deciding things together · tree and pragmatics description: Families do small politics too: Dad wants the beach, Gran wants the mountains, and a deal like a beach near a theme park gives everyone a bit of what they wanted. Who acts: Families, Dad, Gran, deal. 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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 (Families, Dad, Gran, deal), 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:2 # text = Families do small politics too: Dad wants the beach, Gran wants the mountains, and a deal like a beach near a theme park gives everyone a bit of what they wanted. # 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 1 Families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 politics politics NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 2 obj _ _ 5 too too ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 Dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 12 Gran Gran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 20 like like ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 near near ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 theme theme NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 27 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 28 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 27 iobj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 30 nmod _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **do** | present | Families | small politics | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent politics=Eventuality | | 2 | **want** | present | Dad | the beach | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot beach=Theme | | 3 | **want** | present | Gran | the mountains | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot mountain=Theme | | 4 | **give** | present | a deal like a beach near a theme park | a bit | everyone | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient bit=Theme | | 5 | **want** | past | Families *= family* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | 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:2`. **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. **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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