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title: A slogan is a short catchy phrase; the full list of promises is in a… — Adverts, slogans and polls · tree and pragmatics
description: A slogan is a short catchy phrase; the full list of promises is in a party's manifesto, which most people never read. Who acts: slogan, full list, most people. A sentence of the lesson «Adverts, slogans and polls» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Adverts, slogans and polls, sentence 10

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A slogan is a short catchy phrase; the full list of promises is in a party's manifesto, which most people never read.

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**Who acts:** slogan, full list, most people · **What happens:** be, not read, list · **To what, where:** short catchy phrase, manifesto, promises

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Adverts, slogans and polls» of the politics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slogan, full list, most people), 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:10
# text = A slogan is a short catchy phrase; the full list of promises is in a party's manifesto, which most people never read.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	slogan	slogan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	catchy	catchy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	phrase	phrase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	promises	promise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	manifesto	manifesto	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
22	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
23	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a slogan | a short catchy phrase |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the full list of promises |  |  | a party's manifesto |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **read** | past | most people | a party's manifesto |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic |
| 4 | **list** |  |  | promises |  |  |  |  | nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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:10`.

**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 ×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/).

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