--- title: On 6 January 2021, news reports said, while Congress met to confirm… — US elections and the president, as reported · tree and pragmatics description: On 6 January 2021, news reports said, while Congress met to confirm the result, a crowd of Donald Trump's supporters broke into the Capitol; people were hurt, and Congress finished confirming Joe Biden's win that night. Who acts: news reports, Congress, crowd, Joe. 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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 (news reports, Congress, crowd, Joe), 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:15 # text = On 6 January 2021, news reports said, while Congress met to confirm the result, a crowd of Donald Trump's supporters broke into the Capitol; people were hurt, and Congress finished confirming Joe Biden's win that night. # 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): R5-strong ×3 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 January January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 2021 2021 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 flat _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 6 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 reports report NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 while while SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 Congress Congress PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advcl 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 confirm confirm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 result result NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 crowd crowd NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 Donald Donald PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ _ 22 Trump Trump PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 flat _ _ 23 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 24 supporters supporter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 25 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 26 into into ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Capitol Capitol PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 30 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 Congress Congress PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 finished finish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 37 confirming confirm VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 36 xcomp _ _ 38 Joe Joe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nmod:poss _ _ 39 Biden Biden PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 flat _ _ 40 's 's PART POS _ 38 case _ _ 41 win win NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 42 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 43 det _ _ 43 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | news reports | | | | january | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **meet** | past | Congress | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **confirm** | to-infinitive | Congress *not said here* | the result | | | | | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot result=Topic | | 4 | **break** | past | a crowd of Donald's supporters | | | | | into the Capitol *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into capitol=Result | | 5 | **hurt** | past · passive | | people | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 6 | **finish** | past | Congress | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **confirm** | gerund | Congress *not said here* | Joe's win | | | night | | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot win=Topic | | 8 | **win** | | Joe | | | | | | nom win «event intransitive»: 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. 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