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title: Honest leaders explain what happened even when they lose; some say t… — Putting it together: explain each side, check th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Honest leaders explain what happened even when they lose; some say the best leaders get results, others say the best are fair and honest even if they win less. Who acts: Honest leaders, leaders, some, best leaders. A sentence of the lesson «Putting it together: explain each side, check the claim» of
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# Putting it together: explain each side, check the claim, sentence 16

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Honest leaders explain what happened even when they lose; some say the best leaders get results, others say the best are fair and honest even if they win less.

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**Who acts:** Honest leaders, leaders, some, best leaders, others, best · **What happens:** explain, happen, lose, say, get, be · **To what, where:** results, less · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Putting it together: explain each side, check the claim» 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 (Honest leaders, leaders, some, best leaders), 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:16
# text = Honest leaders explain what happened even when they lose; some say the best leaders get results, others say the best are fair and honest even if they win less.
# 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	Honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	explain	explain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
5	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	even	even	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind
12	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
17	results	result	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:NNS:Number=Plur
20	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:det
22	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	ccomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	even	even	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	win	win	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
31	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | Honest leaders |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **happen** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lose** | present | leaders *= leader* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | some |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **get** | present | the best leaders | results |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer result=Stimulus |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | others |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | present | the best |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **be** |  | the best *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **win** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | others *= other* | less |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Eventuality |

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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:040-putting-it-together.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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