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title: Some say adverts are part of free speech; others want limits on spen… — Adverts, slogans and polls · tree and pragmatics
description: Some say adverts are part of free speech; others want limits on spending so rich groups cannot drown out everyone else. Who acts: Some, adverts, others, rich groups. A sentence of the lesson «Adverts, slogans and polls» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the
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# Adverts, slogans and polls, sentence 8

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Some say adverts are part of free speech; others want limits on spending so rich groups cannot drown out everyone else.

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**Who acts:** Some, adverts, others, rich groups · **What happens:** say, be, want, not drown out · **To what, where:** part, limits, spending, everyone · **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 (Some, adverts, others, rich groups), 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:8
# text = Some say adverts are part of free speech; others want limits on spending so rich groups cannot drown out everyone else.
# 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	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	adverts	advert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	limits	limit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	spending	spending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	drown	drown	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	20	obj	_	_
23	else	else	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Some |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | adverts | part |  |  |  | of free speech | tree rules |
| 3 | **want** | present | others | limits |  | spending |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **drown out** | can | rich groups | everyone |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Patient |

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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:8`.

**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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