--- title: Cartoons and comedy exaggerate politicians on purpose to make people… — Putting it together: explain each side, check th… · tree and pragmatics description: Cartoons and comedy exaggerate politicians on purpose to make people laugh and think; real politicians differ, and some are good at their jobs while others are not. Who acts: Cartoons, people, real politicians, some. 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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 (Cartoons, people, real politicians, some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:040-putting-it-together.lesson:10 # text = Cartoons and comedy exaggerate politicians on purpose to make people laugh and think; real politicians differ, and some are good at their jobs while others are not. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 040-putting-it-together.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 comedy comedy NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 exaggerate exaggerate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 politicians politician NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 10 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 laugh laugh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 politicians politician NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 differ differ VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 22 nsubj _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 jobs job NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 while while SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:mark 27 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 28 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **exaggerate** | present | Cartoons and comedy | politicians | | purpose | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | Cartoons and comedy *not said here* | people | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **laugh** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **differ** | present | real politicians | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | present | some | | | politicians's jobs | | good *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **job** | | politicians *= politician* | | | | | | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:040-putting-it-together.lesson:10`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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: [Putting it together: explain each side…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/40-putting-it-together/9/) - next →: [Putting it together: explain each side…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/40-putting-it-together/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/40-putting-it-together/)