--- title: The two main US parties are the Democrats and the Republicans (also… — Parties: teams with ideas · tree and pragmatics description: The two main US parties are the Democrats and the Republicans (also called the GOP); the donkey and the elephant come from old newspaper cartoons. Who acts: two main US parties, donkey. 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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 (two main US parties, donkey), 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:7 # text = The two main US parties are the Democrats and the Republicans (also called the GOP); the donkey and the elephant come from old newspaper cartoons. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 3 main main ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 parties party NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Democrats Democrat PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Republicans Republican PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 13 also also ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 acl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 GOP GOP PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obj 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 donkey donkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj 24 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 25 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 27 newspaper newspaper NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | **is a** | present | the two main US parties | the Democrats and the Republicans | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **call** | participle | | the Republicans *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **come** | present | the donkey and the elephant | | | old newspaper cartoons | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from cartoon=Initial\_Location | 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: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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/6/) - next →: [Parties: teams with ideas, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/)