--- title: A short speech with three clear ideas said slowly works better than… — School councils and class reps · tree and pragmatics description: A short speech with three clear ideas said slowly works better than lots of fast ones, and grown-up politicians do the same. Who acts: short speech, politicians. 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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 (short speech, politicians), 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:7 # text = A short speech with three clear ideas said slowly works better than lots of fast ones, and grown-up politicians do the same. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 6 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 ideas idea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 8 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 10 advmod _ _ 12 than than ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 22 politicians politician NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle | | three clear ideas *not said here* | | | | slowly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **work** | present | a short speech with three clear ideas | | | | | than lots of fast ones; well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **grow up** | participle | a short speech with three clear ideas *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **do** | present | politicians | the same | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality | 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:7`. **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): R8-pos-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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/6/) - next →: [School councils and class reps, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/)