--- title: That is why the map on election night turns states red or blue: red… — US elections and the president, as reported · tree and pragmatics description: That is why the map on election night turns states red or blue: red usually means the Republicans, whose symbol is an elephant, and blue the Democrats, whose symbol is a donkey. Who acts: That, map, red, symbol. 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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 (That, map, red, symbol), 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:3 # text = That is why the map on election night turns states red or blue: red usually means the Republicans, whose symbol is an elephant, and blue the Democrats, whose symbol is a donkey. # 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 ×3 1 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Rel 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 map map NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 election election NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 8 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl:relcl _ _ 10 states state NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:GW:Typo=Yes 16 usually usually ADV RB _ 15 goeswith _ _ 17 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl:relcl 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Republicans Republican PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 symbol symbol NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 acl:relcl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 blue blue VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Democrats Democrat PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 symbol symbol NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 donkey donkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 acl:relcl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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** | present | That | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **turn** | present | the map on election night | states | | | | red *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent state=Theme | | 3 | **mean** | present | red | the Republicans | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent republican=Topic | | 4 | **is a** | present | a elephant's symbol | a elephant | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **blue** | infinitive | red *not said here* | the Democrats | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** | present | a donkey's symbol | a donkey | | | | | tree rules | 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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