--- title: A class rep is a pupil chosen by the class to speak for it at the sc… — School councils and class reps · tree and pragmatics description: A class rep is a pupil chosen by the class to speak for it at the school council, a small parliament of pupils that meets with teachers to make school better. Who acts: class rep, small parliament. 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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 (class rep, small parliament), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:037-school-councils-and-class-reps.lesson:0 # text = A class rep is a pupil chosen by the class to speak for it at the school council, a small parliament of pupils that meets with teachers to make school better. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 037-school-councils-and-class-reps.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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 rep rep NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 pupil pupil NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 chosen choose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:agent _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl 13 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 council council NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 parliament parliament NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 pupils pupil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 meets meet VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 teachers teacher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ _ 31 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 30 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:xcomp 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 class rep | a pupil | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **choose** | participle | | a pupil *not said here* | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | | | | the school council | | for rep | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **meet** | present | a small parliament of pupils | | | | | with teachers | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with teacher=Co-Agent | | 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | a small parliament of pupils *not said here* | school | | | | good *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset school=Product | 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:037-school-councils-and-class-reps.lesson:0`. **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. **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…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure/16/) - next →: [School councils and class reps, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/)