--- title: Political cartoons make a point about the news with drawings; a cari… — Memes, clips and jokes about politicians · tree and pragmatics description: Political cartoons make a point about the news with drawings; a caricature stretches someone's features, and leaders are often drawn as animals. Who acts: Political cartoons, caricature, someone. 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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 (Political cartoons, caricature, someone), 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:14 # text = Political cartoons make a point about the news with drawings; a caricature stretches someone's features, and leaders are often drawn as animals. # 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 Political political ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 about about ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 drawings drawing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 caricature caricature NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 stretches stretch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 15 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 features feature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 leaders leader NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 22 often often ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 drawn draw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 24 as as ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 26 . . 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 | **make** | present | Political cartoons | a point | | | | about the news with drawings | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset point=Product | | 2 | **stretch** | present | a caricature | someone's features | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent feature=Patient | | 3 | **draw** | present · passive | | leaders | | | | as animals; often *property* | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Result as animal=Attribute | | 4 | **feature** | | someone | | | | | | nom feature «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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:013-memes-clips-and-jokes-about-politicians.lesson:14`. **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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