--- title: Words like "saving the country" and "wrecking it" are opinions; a fa… — US elections and the president, as reported · tree and pragmatics description: Words like "saving the country" and "wrecking it" are opinions; a fact can be checked and shown true or false. Who acts: Words. 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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 (Words), 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:21 # text = Words like "saving the country" and "wrecking it" are opinions; a fact can be checked and shown true or false. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 2 like like ADP IN _ 4 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:case 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 saving save VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:nmod 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 wrecking wreck VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 conj _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 opinions opinion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 fact fact NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 checked check VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 parataxis _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 shown show VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ _ 23 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **save** *in a quote* | gerund | Words *not said here* | the country | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme | | 2 | **wreck** *in a quote* | gerund | Words *not said here* | country | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | present | Words | opinions | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **check** | can · passive | | a fact | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **show** | participle | | | | | | true *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:politics:016-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported.lesson:21`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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