--- title: Grown-ups get angry about politics because it decides money, safety… — What politics is: deciding things together · tree and pragmatics description: Grown-ups get angry about politics because it decides money, safety and fairness, and they value these differently; you can disagree strongly and still be kind, and you can check what each politician actually did instead of believing "they're all liars". Who acts: Grown ups, deal, ups, you. 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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 (Grown ups, deal, ups, you), 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:4 # text = Grown-ups get angry about politics because it decides money, safety and fairness, and they value these differently; you can disagree strongly and still be kind, and you can check what each politician actually did instead of believing "they're all liars". # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Grown grow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 3 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 about about ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 politics politics NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 5 obl _ _ 8 because because SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 decides decide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 11 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:appos 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 fairness fairness NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 value value VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 20 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 19 obj _ _ 21 differently differently ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 disagree disagree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 parataxis _ _ 26 strongly strongly ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 still still ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 cop _ _ 30 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 36 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 43 obj _ _ 37 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 38 det _ _ 38 politician politician NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=43:nsubj 39 actually actually ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=43:advmod 40 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 41 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 43 mark _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 41 fixed _ _ 43 believing believe VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 advcl _ _ 44 " " PUNCT `` _ 48 punct _ _ 45 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 46 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 47 all all ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=48:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Tot 48 liars liar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=43:obj 49 " " PUNCT '' _ 48 punct _ _ 50 . . 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 | **get** | present | Grown ups | | | | | angry *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **decide** | present | deal | money and safety and fairness | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent money=Topic | | 3 | **value** | present | ups *= up* | these | | | | differently *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | | 4 | **disagree** | can | you | | | | | strongly *property* | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | still | kind *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **check** | can | you | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **believe** | past · do-support | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | | 8 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | ups *= up* | liars | | | | all *property* | tree rules | 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:4`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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