--- title: People argue about these systems: some say ranking and MMP are faire… — Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Austr… · tree and pragmatics description: People argue about these systems: some say ranking and MMP are fairer, others say they are slower, more complicated, or give small parties too much power. Who acts: People, some, ranking, others. A sentence of the lesson «Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand» of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/9-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/) / [Around the English-speaking world: Can…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/9-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand/) / 17 # Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, sentence 17 People argue about these systems: some say ranking and MMP are fairer, others say they are slower, more complicated, or give small parties too much power. **Who acts:** People, some, ranking, others · **What happens:** argue, say, be, give · **To what, where:** much power, small parties · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand» 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 (People, some, ranking, others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:009-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand.lesson:17 # text = People argue about these systems: some say ranking and MMP are fairer, others say they are slower, more complicated, or give small parties too much power. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 009-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand.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 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 about about ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 5 det _ _ 5 systems system NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 8 nsubj _ _ 8 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 9 ranking ranking NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 MMP MMP PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 fairer fair ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 ccomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 slower slow ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 ccomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 22 advmod _ _ 22 complicated complicated ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 26 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 parties party NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:obj 28 too too ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | People | | | | | about this systems | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about system=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | some | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | ranking and MMP | | | | | fair *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | others | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | ranking | | | | | slow *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | ranking *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **give** | present | ranking *not said here* | much power | small parties | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent party=Recipient power=Theme | 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:009-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand.lesson:17`. **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. 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