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title: A slogan is like the cover of a book: three words you cannot forget,… — Adverts, slogans and polls · tree and pragmatics
description: A slogan is like the cover of a book: three words you cannot forget, while the real promises sit inside a long document called a manifesto. Who acts: slogan, you, real promises, long document. A sentence of the lesson «Adverts, slogans and polls» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with 
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# Adverts, slogans and polls, sentence 2

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A slogan is like the cover of a book: three words you cannot forget, while the real promises sit inside a long document called a manifesto.

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**Who acts:** slogan, you, real promises, long document · **What happens:** be, not forget, sit, call · **To what, where:** three words, long document, manifesto · **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 (slogan, you, real promises, long document), 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:2
# text = A slogan is like the cover of a book: three words you cannot forget, while the real promises sit inside a long document called a manifesto.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	slogan	slogan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cover	cover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	promises	promise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
23	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	document	document	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	acl	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	manifesto	manifesto	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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** | present | a slogan |  |  |  |  | like the cover; of a book | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **forget** | can | you | three words |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sit** | present | the real promises |  |  | a long document |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside document=Location |
| 4 | **call** | participle | a long document *not said here* | a manifesto |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent manifesto=Recipient |

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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:2`.

**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): no change. **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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