Who decides: kings, councils, republics and democracies, sentence 5

Think of deciding on a class trip: the teacher can choose alone, a few class reps can choose, or everyone can vote in secret so nobody is bullied.

Who acts: you, teacher, few class reps, everyone · What happens: think, decide, choose, vote, bully · To what, where: secret, nobody

This is a sentence of the lesson «Who decides: kings, councils, republics and democracies» of the history 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 (you, teacher, few class reps, everyone), 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	Think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	of	of	SCONJ	_	3 deciding	mark
3	deciding	decide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Think	advcl
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 trip	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 trip	det
6	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trip	compound
7	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 deciding	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 choose	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 teacher	det
10	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 choose	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 choose	aux
12	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Think	parataxis
13	alone	alone	ADV	_	12 choose	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 choose	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 reps	det
16	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 reps	amod
17	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 reps	compound
18	reps	rep	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 choose	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 choose	aux
20	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Think	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 vote	punct
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 vote	cc
23	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	25 vote	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 vote	aux
25	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Think	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 secret	case
27	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 vote	obl
28	so	so	SCONJ	_	31 bullied	mark
29	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	31 bullied	nsubj:pass
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 bullied	aux:pass
31	bullied	bully	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 vote	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Think	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	imperative	you not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	decide	gerund	you not said here			on a class trip	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on trip=Topic
3	choose	can	the teacher			alone property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	choose	can	a few class reps				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	vote	can	everyone		secret		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	bully	present · passive		nobody			vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

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:history:067-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies.lesson:5.

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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