--- title: A political party is like a team built around ideas: people who thin… — Parties: teams with ideas · tree and pragmatics description: A political party is like a team built around ideas: people who think alike join together, choose candidates and write a plan of promises called a manifesto, and then try to win elections to carry it out. Who acts: political party, people, plan. 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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 (political party, people, plan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:004-parties-teams-with-ideas.lesson:0 # text = A political party is like a team built around ideas: people who think alike join together, choose candidates and write a plan of promises called a manifesto, and then try to win elections to carry it out. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 004-parties-teams-with-ideas.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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 political political ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 team team NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 around around ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 ideas idea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 appos _ _ 13 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 alike alike ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod 16 join join VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 17 together together ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 choose choose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 20 candidates candidate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 write write VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 promises promise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 27 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 manifesto manifesto NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 xcomp _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 33 advmod _ _ 33 try try VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 win win VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 elections election NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 advcl _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 out out ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a political party | | | | | like a team | tree rules | | 2 | **build** | participle | | a team *not said here* | | ideas | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | people | | | | | alike *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **join** | present | people *not said here* | | | | | together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **choose** | present | people *not said here* | candidates | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candidate=Theme | | 6 | **write** | present | people *not said here* | a plan of promises | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Theme | | 7 | **call** | participle | a plan of promises *not said here* | a manifesto | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **try** | present | people *not said here* | | | | then | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 9 | **win** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | elections | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent election=Eventuality | | 10 | **carry out** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | plan | | | | | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 11 | **plan** | | | promises | | | | | nom plan «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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:004-parties-teams-with-ideas.lesson:0`. **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. **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: [Who can vote, and why children cannot, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot/17/) - next →: [Parties: teams with ideas, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/)