--- title: A class rep speaks for the class at the school council; a person try… — School councils and class reps · tree and pragmatics description: A class rep speaks for the class at the school council; a person trying to get elected is called a candidate. Who acts: class rep, person. 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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, person), 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:5 # text = A class rep speaks for the class at the school council; a person trying to get elected is called a candidate. # 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1 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 4 nsubj _ _ 4 speaks speak VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 council council NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 trying try VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 acl _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:mark 17 get get AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 aux:pass _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 18 elected elect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:xcomp 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 candidate candidate NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 xcomp _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | a class rep | | | the school council | | for the class | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **try** | gerund | a person *not said here* | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **elect** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | a person *not said here* | | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP» | | 4 | **call** | present · passive | | a person | | | | | 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:037-school-councils-and-class-reps.lesson:5`. **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 ×4, 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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/4/) - next →: [School councils and class reps, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/)