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title: "Left" and "right" are rough labels, nothing to do with which hand y… — Parties: teams with ideas · tree and pragmatics
description: "Left" and "right" are rough labels, nothing to do with which hand you write with: the left often wants the government to do more and share more, the right often wants lower taxes, smaller government and to keep traditions, and most people are a mix. Who acts: Left, you, government, right. A sentenc
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# Parties: teams with ideas, sentence 2

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"Left" and "right" are rough labels, nothing to do with which hand you write with: the left often wants the government to do more and share more, the right often wants lower taxes, smaller government and to keep traditions, and most people are a mix.

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**Who acts:** Left, you, government, right, most people · **What happens:** be, do, write, want, share, keep · **To what, where:** rough labels, hand, government, more, lower taxes, traditions

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Parties: teams with ideas» 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 (Left, you, government, right), 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:2
# text = "Left" and "right" are rough labels, nothing to do with which hand you write with: the left often wants the government to do more and share more, the right often wants lower taxes, smaller government and to keep traditions, and most people are a mix.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×5
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	labels	label	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	10	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	17	det	_	_
17	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	write	write	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:advmod
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	left	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	often	often	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:acl
30	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
33	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
37	often	often	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
39	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	40	amod	_	_
40	taxes	tax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	43	amod	_	_
43	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	conj	_	_
47	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obj	_	_
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
50	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	51	amod	_	_
51	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	nsubj	_	_
52	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	54	cop	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	mix	mix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:parataxis
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Left | rough labels and a mix |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | Left *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with which hand | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **write** | present | you | which hand *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 4 | **want** | present | the left | the government |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the government *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality |
| 6 | **share** | infinitive | the government *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **want** | present | the right | lower taxes and smaller government |  |  |  | often *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot tax=Theme |
| 8 | **keep** | to-infinitive | the right *not said here* | traditions |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tradition=Theme |
| 9 | **is a** | present | most people | a mix |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:2`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×5. **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/).

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