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title: A big thing like a cancelled national election would be on every new… — Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet · tree and pragmatics
description: A big thing like a cancelled national election would be on every news channel and on the official elections website at once. Who acts: big thing. A sentence of the lesson «Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet, sentence 6

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A big thing like a cancelled national election would be on every news channel and on the official elections website at once.

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**Who acts:** big thing · **What happens:** cancel, be · **To what, where:** news channel

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet» 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 (big thing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:036-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure.lesson:6
# text = A big thing like a cancelled national election would be on every news channel and on the official elections website at once.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 036-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	cancelled	cancel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
7	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
13	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	channel	channel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	compound	_	_
20	website	website	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	once	once	ADV	RB	_	10	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **cancel** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | would | a big thing like a cancelled national election |  |  | every news channel and the elections website |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on channel=Location |

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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:036-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure.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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