Votes, parties and the people in charge, sentence 8

An election is when adults vote to choose their leaders and representatives; candidates send leaflets to explain their promises.

Who acts: election, candidates, adults · What happens: be, choose, send, explain, promise · To what, where: leaders, leaflets, promises

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 (election, candidates, adults), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 election	det
2	election	election	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 vote	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 vote	cop
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 vote	advmod
5	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 vote	nsubj
6	vote	vote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 choose	mark
8	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 vote	advcl
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 leaders	nmod:poss
10	leaders	leader	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 choose	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 representatives	cc
12	representatives	representative	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 leaders	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 send	punct
14	candidates	candidate	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 send	nsubj
15	send	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 vote	conj
16	leaflets	leaflet	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 send	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 explain	mark
18	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 send	advcl
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 promises	nmod:poss
20	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 explain	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 vote	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	a election		vote property	tree rules
2	choose	to-infinitive	a election not said here	adults's leaders and representatives		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leader=Theme
3	send	present	candidates	leaflets		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaflet=Theme
4	explain speech: assert	to-infinitive	candidates not said here	adults's promises		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Topic
5	promise		adults = adult			nom promise «communication transitive»: 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:8.

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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