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title: Rallies fire up supporters; crowd sizes are hard to count and often… — Adverts, slogans and polls · tree and pragmatics
description: Rallies fire up supporters; crowd sizes are hard to count and often argued about, and camera angles can make a crowd look bigger or smaller. Who acts: Rallies, crowd sizes, camera angles, crowd. A sentence of the lesson «Adverts, slogans and polls» of the politics course of Mova's primary school wit
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# Adverts, slogans and polls, sentence 18

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Rallies fire up supporters; crowd sizes are hard to count and often argued about, and camera angles can make a crowd look bigger or smaller.

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**Who acts:** Rallies, crowd sizes, camera angles, crowd · **What happens:** fire up, be, count, argue, make, look · **To what, where:** supporters, crowd

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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 (Rallies, crowd sizes, camera angles, crowd), 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:18
# text = Rallies fire up supporters; crowd sizes are hard to count and often argued about, and camera angles can make a crowd look bigger or smaller.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Rallies	rally	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fire	fire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	supporters	supporter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct
6	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	sizes	size	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	often	often	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	argued	argue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	camera	camera	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	angles	angle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
25	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	xcomp	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9: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 | **fire up** | present | Rallies | supporters |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supporter=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | crowd sizes |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **count** | to-infinitive | crowd sizes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | participle | crowd sizes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about, often *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **make** | can | camera angles | a crowd |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **look** | infinitive | a crowd *not said here* |  |  |  |  | big *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:18`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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