--- title: Each state is a match worth a number of "electors", bigger states ar… — US elections and the president, as reported · tree and pragmatics description: Each state is a match worth a number of "electors", bigger states are worth more, and in almost every state the winner takes all of them. Who acts: state, bigger states, winner. 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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 (state, bigger states, winner), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:016-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported.lesson:1 # text = Each state is a match worth a number of "electors", bigger states are worth more, and in almost every state the winner takes all of them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 016-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Each each DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 match match NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 worth worth DET PDT PronType=Tot 8 det:predet _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 electors elector NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 amod _ _ 15 states state NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 worth worth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 18 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 almost almost ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 24 det _ _ 24 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 winner winner NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 28 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 27 obj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | each state | a match and worth number of electors | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | bigger states | | | | | worth *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **take** | present | the winner | all | | every state | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent all=Value in state=Location | 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:016-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported.lesson:1`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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