--- title: Politics is how groups of people make decisions and share things out… — What politics is: deciding things together · tree and pragmatics description: Politics is how groups of people make decisions and share things out when they cannot all have what they want. Who acts: Politics. 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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 (Politics), 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:5 # text = Politics is how groups of people make decisions and share things out when they cannot all have what they want. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Politics politics NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 7 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 3 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 4 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 decisions decision NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 share share VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 11 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 out out ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 17 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 18 advmod _ _ 18 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 18 obj _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **is** | present | Politics | | | | | make *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **share out** | present | Politics *not said here* | things | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **have** | can | politics | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | | 4 | **want** | present | politics | | | | | | 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:5`. **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): 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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