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title: This lesson says what was reported, gives each side in its own best… — US elections and the president, as reported · tree and pragmatics
description: This lesson says what was reported, gives each side in its own best words, and does not pick one. Who acts: lesson. A sentence of the lesson «US elections and the president, as reported» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# US elections and the president, as reported, sentence 6

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This lesson says what was reported, gives each side in its own best words, and does not pick one.

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**Who acts:** lesson · **What happens:** say, report, give, not pick, word · **To what, where:** side, own best words, one · **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 (lesson), 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:6
# text = This lesson says what was reported, gives each side in its own best words, and does not pick one.
# 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): no change
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	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* | present | this lesson |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **report** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **give** | present | this lesson *not said here* | each side |  | lesson's own best words |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **pick** | present · do-support | this lesson *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 5 | **word** |  | lesson |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «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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**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:6`.

**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): no change. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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