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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 (margin, one party, wobble, race), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:041-olympiad-fair-votes-close-counts-and-who-decides.lesson:14 # text = A poll's margin of error is its wobble: if one party is 2 points ahead and the wobble is 3, the race is too close to call. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 041-olympiad-fair-votes-close-counts-and-who-decides.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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 poll poll NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 margin margin NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 error error NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 wobble wobble NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 11 if if SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 12 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 points point NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 advcl _ _ 17 ahead ahead ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 wobble wobble NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 race race NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 too too ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 parataxis _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a poll's margin of error | margin's wobble | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | one party | 2 points | | | | ahead *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | the wobble | 3 | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | the race | | | | | close *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **call** | to-infinitive | the race *not said here* | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:041-olympiad-fair-votes-close-counts-and-who-decides.lesson:14`. **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): no change. **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. 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