--- title: A survey asks lots of people the same question; a referendum is when… — School councils and class reps · tree and pragmatics description: A survey asks lots of people the same question; a referendum is when a whole country votes on one big question. Who acts: survey, referendum, whole country. 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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 (survey, referendum, whole country), 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:15 # text = A survey asks lots of people the same question; a referendum is when a whole country votes on one big question. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 survey survey NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 referendum referendum NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 conj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det 16 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:amod 17 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:compound 18 votes vote VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 nsubj _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 21 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a survey | the same question | lots of people | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | a referendum | | | | | when *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **vote** | present | a whole country | | | one big question | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: 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:15`. **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 ×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, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/14/) - next →: [Protests, petitions and young activists, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/38-protests-petitions-and-young-activists/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/)