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title: News reports said Joe Biden won the 2020 election with 306 electors… — US elections and the president, as reported · tree and pragmatics
description: News reports said Joe Biden won the 2020 election with 306 electors to Donald Trump's 232; Mr Trump and his supporters said there had been cheating. Who acts: News reports, Joe, Mr Trump, cheating. A sentence of the lesson «US elections and the president, as reported» of the politics course of Mova'
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# US elections and the president, as reported, sentence 13

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News reports said Joe Biden won the 2020 election with 306 electors to Donald Trump's 232; Mr Trump and his supporters said there had been cheating.

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**Who acts:** News reports, Joe, Mr Trump, cheating · **What happens:** say, win, be · **To what, where:** 2020 election · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «US elections and the president, as reported» 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 (News reports, Joe, Mr Trump, cheating), 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:13
# text = News reports said Joe Biden won the 2020 election with 306 electors to Donald Trump's 232; Mr Trump and his supporters said there had been cheating.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	News	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	reports	report	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Joe	Joe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Biden	Biden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	306	306	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	electors	elector	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	Donald	Donald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
15	Trump	Trump	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
17	232	232	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Trump	Trump	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=20:cc
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	supporters	supporter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	27	expl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:expl
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
27	been	be	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part
28	cheating	cheating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:obj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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* | past | News reports |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **win** | past | Joe | the 2020 election |  |  |  | with 306 electors to Donald's 232 | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent election=Eventuality |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mr Trump and Trump's supporters |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **be** | past · perfect | cheating |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×4, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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