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title: Canvassing means volunteers going door to door to talk to voters and… — Adverts, slogans and polls · tree and pragmatics
description: Canvassing means volunteers going door to door to talk to voters and hear what they care about. Who acts: volunteers. A sentence of the lesson «Adverts, slogans and polls» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Adverts, slogans and polls, sentence 16

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Canvassing means volunteers going door to door to talk to voters and hear what they care about.

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**Who acts:** volunteers · **What happens:** canvass, mean, go, talk, hear, care · **To what, where:** door · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (volunteers), 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:16
# text = Canvassing means volunteers going door to door to talk to voters and hear what they care about.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Canvassing	canvass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:csubj
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	volunteers	volunteer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obj
4	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:acl
5	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	voters	voter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	obj	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	care	care	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **canvass** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | volunteers | door |  |  |  | to door | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
| 4 | **talk** | to-infinitive | volunteers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to voters | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to voter=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **hear** | infinitive | volunteers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 6 | **care** | present | volunteers *= volunteer* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:16`.

**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 ×2, 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/).

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