--- title: Before an election, candidates try to get noticed the way a new cere… — Adverts, slogans and polls · tree and pragmatics description: Before an election, candidates try to get noticed the way a new cereal does: adverts, catchy slogans, posters, signs on lawns and big cheering rallies. Who acts: candidates, way, new cereal. 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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 (candidates, way, new cereal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:012-adverts-slogans-and-polls.lesson:0 # text = Before an election, candidates try to get noticed the way a new cereal does: adverts, catchy slogans, posters, signs on lawns and big cheering rallies. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 012-adverts-slogans-and-polls.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 ×1 1 Before before ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 election election NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 candidates candidate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 try try VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 noticed notice VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 xcomp _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 cereal cereal NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 17 adverts advert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obj 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 catchy catchy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 slogans slogan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 posters poster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 signs sign NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 lawns lawn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 cheering cheer VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 amod _ _ 30 rallies rally NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | present | candidates | | | | before a election | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **get** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | candidates *not said here* | the way | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **notice** | participle | the way *not said here* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **do** | present | a new cereal | the way *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | | 5 | **cheer** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:012-adverts-slogans-and-polls.lesson:0`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Debates and rows on chat shows, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows/21/) - next →: [Adverts, slogans and polls, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/12-adverts-slogans-and-polls/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/12-adverts-slogans-and-polls/)