--- title: People give reasons, listen, argue, vote, and sometimes protest peac… — What politics is: deciding things together · tree and pragmatics description: People give reasons, listen, argue, vote, and sometimes protest peacefully; in a democracy the voters choose the people who make the rules, so rules are made by people and people can change them. Who acts: People, voters. 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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, voters), 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:3 # text = People give reasons, listen, argue, vote, and sometimes protest peacefully; in a democracy the voters choose the people who make the rules, so rules are made by people and people can change them. # 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, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 reasons reason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 listen listen VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc 12 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 13 advmod _ _ 13 protest protest VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 14 peacefully peacefully ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 democracy democracy NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 voters voter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 choose choose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 so so SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 advcl _ _ 33 by by ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl:agent _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 37 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ _ 39 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present | People | reasons | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme | | 2 | **listen** | present | People *not said here* | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | People *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **vote** | infinitive | People *not said here* | | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **protest** *speech: disagree* | present | People *not said here* | | | | | peacefully, sometimes *property* | vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **choose** | present | the voters | the people | | a democracy | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | | 7 | **make** | present | the people | the rules | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Product | | 8 | **make** | present · passive | people | rules | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product | | 9 | **change** | can | people | rules *= rule* | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | 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:3`. **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, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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