Votes, parties and the people in charge, sentence 19

In the UK grown-ups can vote from the age of 18; children cannot vote yet, but they can still write letters and have their say.

Who acts: grown ups, children · What happens: grow, vote, not vote, write, have, say · To what, where: UK, letters, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Votes, parties and the people in charge» of the adult life 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 (grown ups, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 UK	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 UK	det
3	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 vote	obl
4	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 ups	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 grown	punct
6	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 vote	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 vote	aux
8	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 age	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 age	det
11	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 vote	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 18	case
13	18	18	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 age	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 vote	punct
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 vote	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 vote	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 vote	advmod
18	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 vote	parataxis
19	yet	yet	ADV	_	18 vote	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 write	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 write	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 write	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 write	aux
24	still	still	ADV	_	25 write	advmod
25	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 vote	conj
26	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 write	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 have	cc
28	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 write	conj
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 say	nmod:poss
30	say	say	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 vote	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	vote	can	grown ups		the UK	from the age of 18	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not vote	can	children			yet	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	write	can	children = child	letters		still	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme
5	have	infinitive	children = child not said here	children's say			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent say=Patient
6	say		children = child				nom say «state 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, 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:adult-life:031-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge.lesson:19.

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, 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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