--- title: A campaign promise is something a candidate says they will do; promi… — School councils and class reps · tree and pragmatics description: A campaign promise is something a candidate says they will do; promising what you cannot make happen makes people cross later. Who acts: campaign promise, candidate, promises, you. A sentence of the lesson «School councils and class reps» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/) / [School councils and class reps](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/) / 6 # School councils and class reps, sentence 6 A campaign promise is something a candidate says they will do; promising what you cannot make happen makes people cross later. **Who acts:** campaign promise, candidate, promises, you, promising, people · **What happens:** be, say, do, promise, not make, not happen · **To what, where:** something, people · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «School councils and class reps» of the politics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (campaign promise, candidate, promises, you), 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:6 # text = A campaign promise is something a candidate says they will do; promising what you cannot make happen makes people cross later. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 campaign campaign NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 candidate candidate NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:ccomp 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 promising promise VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj 14 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 18 obj _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 acl:relcl _ _ 19 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 20 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 21 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 cross cross VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 22 advmod _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20: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 campaign promise | something | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a candidate | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **do** | future | promises *= promise* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **promise** *speech: promise* | gerund | | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **make** | can | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **happen** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **make** | present | promising | people | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **cross** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | late *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:6`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/5/) - next →: [School councils and class reps, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/)