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title: Smaller parties bring their own big topics, like the Greens with the… — Parties: teams with ideas · tree and pragmatics
description: Smaller parties bring their own big topics, like the Greens with the environment or the SNP with Scotland running itself, and some candidates belong to no party at all. Who acts: Smaller parties, SNP, candidates. A sentence of the lesson «Parties: teams with ideas» of the politics course of Mova's p
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# Parties: teams with ideas, sentence 3

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Smaller parties bring their own big topics, like the Greens with the environment or the SNP with Scotland running itself, and some candidates belong to no party at all.

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**Who acts:** Smaller parties, SNP, candidates · **What happens:** bring, run, belong · **To what, where:** own big topics, party

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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 (Smaller parties, SNP, candidates), 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:3
# text = Smaller parties bring their own big topics, like the Greens with the environment or the SNP with Scotland running itself, and some candidates belong to no party at all.
# 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	Smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bring	bring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	topics	topic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Greens	green	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	environment	environment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	SNP	SNP	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
21	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	candidates	candidate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	belong	belong	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
29	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | present | Smaller parties | people's own big topics |  |  |  | like the Greens with the environment  the SNP with Scotland | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent topic=Theme |
| 2 | **run** | gerund | the SNP with Scotland *not said here* | party |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme itself=Trajectory |
| 3 | **belong** | present | some candidates |  |  |  |  | to no party at all | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |

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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:3`.

**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/).

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