--- title: Some false claims about voting days are spread on purpose to stop pe… — Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet · tree and pragmatics description: Some false claims about voting days are spread on purpose to stop people voting, which is called voter suppression. 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 the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/) / [Checking practice: true, false and not…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure/) / 7 # Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet, sentence 7 Some false claims about voting days are spread on purpose to stop people voting, which is called voter suppression. **What happens:** spread, stop, vote, call · **To what, where:** false claims, purpose, people, voter suppression · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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: 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:7 # text = Some false claims about voting days are spread on purpose to stop people voting, which is called voter suppression. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 2 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 claims claim NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 about about ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 voting voting NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 spread spread VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 acl _ _ 13 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 voting vote VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:acl 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl:relcl _ _ 19 voter voter NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 suppression suppression NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 xcomp _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spread** | present · passive | | some false claims about voting days | | purpose | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on purpose=Destination | | 2 | **stop** | to-infinitive | | people | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **vote** | gerund | | | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **call** | present · passive | | voter suppression | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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:036-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure.lesson:7`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Checking practice: true, false and not…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure/6/) - next →: [Checking practice: true, false and not…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure/)