--- title: A poll asks one or two thousand people, picked to look like the whol… — Adverts, slogans and polls · tree and pragmatics description: A poll asks one or two thousand people, picked to look like the whole country, and gives a guess with a wobble, like tasting one spoon to judge a whole pot of soup. Who acts: poll. 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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), 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:4 # text = A poll asks one or two thousand people, picked to look like the whole country, and gives a guess with a wobble, like tasting one spoon to judge a whole pot of soup. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 poll poll NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nummod 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 conj _ _ 7 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 picked pick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advcl 13 like like ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 guess guess NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 wobble wobble NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 like like SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 27 tasting taste VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:parataxis 28 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 spoon spoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 judge judge VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 soup soup NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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** *speech: ask* | present | a poll | | one thousand people | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | | 2 | **pick** | participle | | one thousand people *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **look** | to-infinitive | | | | | | like the whole country | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **give** | present | a poll *not said here* | a guess | | | | with a wobble | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guess=Theme | | 5 | **taste** | gerund | a poll *not said here* | one spoon | | | | | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme spoon=Attribute | | 6 | **judge** | to-infinitive | a poll *not said here* | a whole pot of soup | | | | | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent pot=Value | 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:4`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Adverts, slogans and polls, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/12-adverts-slogans-and-polls/3/) - next →: [Adverts, slogans and polls, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/12-adverts-slogans-and-polls/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/12-adverts-slogans-and-polls/)