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title: An impression copies how a famous person talks and moves; comedians… — Memes, clips and jokes about politicians · tree and pragmatics
description: An impression copies how a famous person talks and moves; comedians in many countries have mocked leaders for hundreds of years. Who acts: impression, famous person, comedians. A sentence of the lesson «Memes, clips and jokes about politicians» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with it
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# Memes, clips and jokes about politicians, sentence 10

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An impression copies how a famous person talks and moves; comedians in many countries have mocked leaders for hundreds of years.

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**Who acts:** impression, famous person, comedians · **What happens:** copy, talk, move, mock · **To what, where:** leaders

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Memes, clips and jokes about politicians» 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 (impression, famous person, comedians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:013-memes-clips-and-jokes-about-politicians.lesson:10
# text = An impression copies how a famous person talks and moves; comedians in many countries have mocked leaders for hundreds of years.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 013-memes-clips-and-jokes-about-politicians.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	impression	impression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	copies	copy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	talks	talk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	comedians	comedian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	mocked	mock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
18	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **copy** | present | a impression |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **talk** | present | a famous person |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **move** | present | a famous person *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **mock** | present · perfect | comedians in many countries | leaders |  |  |  | for hundreds of years | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent leader=Theme for hundred=Attribute |

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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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**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): 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.

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