--- title: A poll is a snapshot of today: people change their minds, some do no… — Adverts, slogans and polls · tree and pragmatics description: A poll is a snapshot of today: people change their minds, some do not answer, and some who say they will vote never do; turnout means how many actually vote. Who acts: poll, people, some, Polls. 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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 (poll, people, some, Polls), 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:14 # text = A poll is a snapshot of today: people change their minds, some do not answer, and some who say they will vote never do; turnout means how many actually vote. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 poll poll NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 snapshot snapshot NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 minds mind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 17 nsubj _ _ 15 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 answer answer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 22 nsubj _ _ 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 ccomp _ _ 26 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 turnout turnout NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ _ 31 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 advmod _ _ 32 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 nsubj _ _ 33 actually actually ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 vote vote VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 ccomp _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a poll | a snapshot | | | today | | tree rules | | 2 | **change** | present | people | people's minds | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | | 3 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | some | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | some | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **vote** | future | Polls *= poll* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **do** | present | Polls *= poll* *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **mean** | present | turnout | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **vote** | present | many | | | | | actually *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **mind** | | people | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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:14`. **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): R7-rel-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, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/12-adverts-slogans-and-polls/12/) - next →: [Adverts, slogans and polls, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/12-adverts-slogans-and-polls/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/12-adverts-slogans-and-polls/)