--- title: A floating voter changes which party they vote for; a loyal voter al… — Parties: teams with ideas · tree and pragmatics description: A floating voter changes which party they vote for; a loyal voter always votes for the same one. Who acts: floating voter, voters, loyal voter. 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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 (floating voter, voters, loyal voter), 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:16 # text = A floating voter changes which party they vote for; a loyal voter always votes for the same one. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 floating float VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:_ 3 voter voter NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 6 det _ _ 6 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 vote vote VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 8 obl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 loyal loyal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 voter voter NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 15 advmod _ _ 15 votes vote VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **float** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **change** | present | a floating voter | which party | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Patient | | 3 | **vote** | present | voters *= voter* | which party *not said here* | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Theme | | 4 | **vote** | present | a loyal voter | | | | | for the same one *goal*; always *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for one=Goal | 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:16`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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: [Parties: teams with ideas, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/15/) - next →: [Parties: teams with ideas, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/)