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title: The King and the royal family do not vote and do not say which party… — Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: The King and the royal family do not vote and do not say which party they support, so a post saying the King voted for a party is false. Who acts: King, post. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★, sentence 16

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The King and the royal family do not vote and do not say which party they support, so a post saying the King voted for a party is false.

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**Who acts:** King, post · **What happens:** not vote, not say, support, say, vote, be · **To what, where:** party · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★» 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 (King, post), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:042-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick.lesson:16
# text = The King and the royal family do not vote and do not say which party they support, so a post saying the King voted for a party is false.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 042-olympiad-check-the-claim-and-spot-the-trick.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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	vote	vote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	15	det	_	_
15	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	support	support	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
22	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	voted	vote	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **not** **vote** | present · do-support | the King and the royal family |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | the King and the royal family *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **support** | present | King | which party |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer party=Stimulus |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a post *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **vote** | past | the King |  |  |  |  | for a party *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for party=Goal |
| 6 | **is** | present | a post |  |  |  |  | false *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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): 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/).

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