--- title: A campaign is everything a candidate does to win votes, like posters… — Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winn… · tree and pragmatics description: A campaign is everything a candidate does to win votes, like posters, speeches and knocking on doors (canvassing); damaging someone's poster is wrong even if you disagree. Who acts: campaign, candidate, doors, damaging. 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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 (campaign, candidate, doors, damaging), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:002-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning.lesson:13 # text = A campaign is everything a candidate does to win votes, like posters, speeches and knocking on doors (canvassing); damaging someone's poster is wrong even if you disagree. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 002-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 campaign campaign NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 candidate candidate NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nsubj 7 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 win win VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:acl:relcl 10 votes vote NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 posters poster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 speeches speech NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 knocking knock VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 doors door NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 20 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 21 canvassing canvass VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 acl _ _ 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 damaging damaging VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 csubj _ _ 25 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 poster poster NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 30 even even ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 31 if if SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 disagree disagree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | a campaign | everything | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | present | a candidate | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **win** | to-infinitive | a candidate *not said here* | votes | | | | like posters and speeches | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vote=Eventuality | | 4 | **knock** | gerund | a candidate *not said here* | | | doors | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on door=Location | | 5 | **canvass** | gerund | doors *not said here* | | | | | | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **damaging** | gerund | | someone's poster | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **is** | present | damaging | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **disagree** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **post** | | someone | | | | | | nom poster «communication transitive»: poss=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:002-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning.lesson:13`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-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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