Money, work and the big choices, sentence 18
Voting is choosing who runs the country or the local council; in the UK most people can vote from eighteen, and grown-ups are allowed to disagree about whom to vote for.
Who acts: Voting, most people, grown ups · What happens: choose, run, vote, grow, allow, disagree · To what, where: country, UK, grown ups
This is a sentence of the lesson «Money, work and the big choices» 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 (Voting, most people, grown ups), 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 | Voting | voting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 choosing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 choosing | aux |
| 3 | choosing | choose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 runs | nsubj |
| 5 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 choosing | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 country | det |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 runs | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 council | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 council | det |
| 10 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 council | amod |
| 11 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 country | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 vote | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 UK | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 UK | det |
| 15 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 vote | obl |
| 16 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 people | amod |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 vote | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 vote | aux |
| 19 | vote | vote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 runs | conj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 eighteen | case |
| 21 | eighteen | eighteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 vote | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 allowed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 allowed | cc |
| 24 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 ups | amod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 ups | punct |
| 26 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 allowed | aux:pass |
| 28 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 choosing | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 disagree | mark |
| 30 | disagree | disagree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 allowed | xcomp |
| 31 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 34 vote | mark |
| 32 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 vote | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 vote | mark |
| 34 | vote | vote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 disagree | ccomp |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 vote | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 choosing | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | present · progressive | Voting | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | run | present | the country or the local council | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme country=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | vote | can | most people | the UK | from eighteen | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | allow | present · passive | grown ups | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | disagree not said to happen | to-infinitive | grown ups not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | vote | to-infinitive | grown ups not said here | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent whom=Result |
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:039-money-work-and-the-big-choices.lesson:18.
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 ×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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