--- title: Losing hurts, but a fair vote is still fair; a good meeting has a ch… — School councils and class reps · tree and pragmatics description: Losing hurts, but a fair vote is still fair; a good meeting has a chair who makes room for every voice, even the youngest and quietest. Who acts: fair vote, good meeting, chair. 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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 (fair vote, good meeting, chair), 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:4 # text = Losing hurts, but a fair vote is still fair; a good meeting has a chair who makes room for every voice, even the youngest and quietest. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Losing lose VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Ger 2 nsubj _ _ 2 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 4 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 vote vote NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 still still ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 meeting meeting NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 chair chair NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 23 det _ _ 23 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 even even ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 23 appos _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 quietest quiet ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 27 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** | gerund | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **hurt** | present | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** | present | a fair vote | | | | still | fair *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | present | a good meeting | a chair | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chair=Patient | | 5 | **make** | present | a chair | room | | | | for every voice | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent room=Product for voice=Asset | 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:4`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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: [School councils and class reps, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/3/) - next →: [School councils and class reps, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/)