--- title: Running is like a mini election: you are a candidate, you give a sho… — School councils and class reps · tree and pragmatics description: Running is like a mini election: you are a candidate, you give a short speech, and the best promises are ones you can really try to keep, like asking for more football time, not "free sweets every Friday". Who acts: you, best promises. 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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 (you, best promises), 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:1 # text = Running is like a mini election: you are a candidate, you give a short speech, and the best promises are ones you can really try to keep, like asking for more football time, not "free sweets every Friday". # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Running run VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Ger 6 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 mini mini ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 election election NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 parataxis _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 candidate candidate NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=14:cc 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 22 amod _ _ 22 promises promise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 really really ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 try try VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 acl:relcl _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 like like SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 33 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 xcomp _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 37 amod _ _ 36 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 40 " " PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=39:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 41 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 43 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 44 det _ _ 44 Friday Friday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=42:appos 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=44:punct 46 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | like a mini election | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | you | a candidate | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **give** | present | you | a short speech | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | the best promises | ones | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **try** | can | you | ones *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | you *not said here* | free sweets every Friday | | | time | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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:037-school-councils-and-class-reps.lesson:1`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [School councils and class reps, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/0/) - next →: [School councils and class reps, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/)