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title: News reports said Donald Trump won the 2024 election against Kamala… — US elections and the president, as reported · tree and pragmatics
description: News reports said Donald Trump won the 2024 election against Kamala Harris, winning the main swing states and the most votes nationwide; his second term began in January 2025. Who acts: News reports, Donald, second term. A sentence of the lesson «US elections and the president, as reported» of the p
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# US elections and the president, as reported, sentence 17

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News reports said Donald Trump won the 2024 election against Kamala Harris, winning the main swing states and the most votes nationwide; his second term began in January 2025.

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**Who acts:** News reports, Donald, second term · **What happens:** say, win, begin, term · **To what, where:** 2024 election, main swing states · **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, Donald, second term), 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:17
# text = News reports said Donald Trump won the 2024 election against Kamala Harris, winning the main swing states and the most votes nationwide; his second term began in January 2025.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
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	Donald	Donald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Trump	Trump	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	2024	2024	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	against	against	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Kamala	Kamala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	Harris	Harris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	winning	win	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advcl
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	swing	swing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup
22	votes	vote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
23	nationwide	nationwide	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	27	amod	_	_
27	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	2025	2025	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nmod:unmarked	_	_
32	.	.	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 | Donald | the 2024 election |  |  |  | against Kamala | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent election=Eventuality |
| 3 | **win** | gerund | Donald *not said here* | the main swing states and the most votes |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Eventuality |
| 4 | **begin** | past | Donald's second term |  |  |  | january |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **term** |  | Donald |  |  |  |  |  | nom term «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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