--- title: The two big parties are the Democrats, who often favour more governm… — US elections and the president, as reported · tree and pragmatics description: The two big parties are the Democrats, who often favour more government help and rules, and the Republicans, who often favour lower taxes and smaller government; other parties almost never win the big races. Who acts: Democrats, Republicans, other parties. 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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 (Democrats, Republicans, other parties), 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:20 # text = The two big parties are the Democrats, who often favour more government help and rules, and the Republicans, who often favour lower taxes and smaller government; other parties almost never win the big races. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 3 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 parties party NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Democrats Democrat PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 10 often often ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 favour favour VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 12 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 amod _ _ 13 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Republicans Republican PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 23 often often ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 favour favour VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 25 lower low ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 26 amod _ _ 26 taxes tax NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 amod _ _ 29 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 parties party NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 33 almost almost ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:advmod 34 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 win win VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 races race NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 35 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 | | the Democrats and the Republicans | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **favour** | present | the Democrats and the Republicans | more government help and rules | | | | often *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **favour** | present | the Republicans | lower taxes and smaller government | | | | often *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **win** | present | other parties | the big races | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality | 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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