Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs opinion, sentence 14

In a general election grown-ups vote for who will run the country; elections come back every few years, and the losers accept the result and try again.

Who acts: grown, elections, losers · What happens: vote, run, come back, accept, try · To what, where: general election, country, result

This is a sentence of the lesson «Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs opinion» 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, elections, losers), 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	_	4 election	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 election	det
3	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 election	amod
4	election	election	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 come	obl
5	grown	grow	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 vote	nsubj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 grown	punct
7	ups	ups	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grown	compound
8	vote	vote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 election	acl:relcl
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 run	mark
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 run	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 run	aux
12	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 vote	acl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 country	det
14	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 run	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 election	punct
16	elections	election	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 come	nsubj
17	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 come	advmod
19	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 years	det
20	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 years	amod
21	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 come	obl:unmarked
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 accept	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 accept	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 losers	det
25	losers	loser	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 accept	nsubj
26	accept	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 come	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 result	det
28	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 accept	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 try	cc
30	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 accept	conj
31	again	again	ADV	_	30 try	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 come	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	vote	present	grown	a general election not said here			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent election=Theme
2	run	future		the country			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme country=Trajectory
3	come back	infinitive	elections		a general election	year	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in election=Location
4	accept	present	the losers	the result			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent result=Theme
5	try	infinitive	the losers not said here			again	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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:052-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion.lesson:14.

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. 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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