--- title: An opinion poll asks around one or two thousand people chosen to mat… — Adverts, slogans and polls · tree and pragmatics description: An opinion poll asks around one or two thousand people chosen to match the country by age, place and more; it gives a good guess, not a sure answer. Who acts: opinion poll, country. 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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 (opinion poll, country), 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:12 # text = An opinion poll asks around one or two thousand people chosen to match the country by age, place and more; it gives a good guess, not a sure answer. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 opinion opinion NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 poll poll NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 around around ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 6 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 8 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 compound _ _ 9 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 conj _ _ 10 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl 11 chosen choose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 match match VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advcl 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc 21 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:conj|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 guess guess NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 33 . . 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 | **ask around** *speech: ask* | present | a opinion poll | | one people | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | | 2 | **choose** | participle | | one people *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **match** | to-infinitive | | the country | | | by age and place | | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Patient | | 4 | **give** | present | country | a good guess and a sure answer | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guess=Theme | 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:12`. **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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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/). - ← previous: [Adverts, slogans and polls, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/12-adverts-slogans-and-polls/11/) - next →: [Adverts, slogans and polls, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/12-adverts-slogans-and-polls/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/12-adverts-slogans-and-polls/)