US elections and the president, as reported, sentence 10

Some say the Electoral College makes candidates care about small states; others say it is unfair because a vote can count for more in one state than another.

Who acts: Some, Electoral College, candidates, others, College, vote · What happens: say, make, care, be, count · To what, where: candidates, one state · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «US elections and the president, as reported» of the politics 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 (Some, Electoral College, candidates, others), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 makes	parataxis
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 College	det
4	Electoral	Electoral	PROPN	_	5 College	compound
5	College	College	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 makes	nsubj
6	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	candidates	candidate	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 makes	obj
8	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 makes	xcomp
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 states	case
10	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 states	amod
11	states	state	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 care	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 say	punct
13	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 say	nsubj
14	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 makes	parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 unfair	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 unfair	cop
17	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 say	ccomp
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 count	mark
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 vote	det
20	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 count	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 count	aux
22	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 unfair	advcl
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 more	case
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 count	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 state	case
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 state	nummod
27	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 count	obl
28	than	than	ADP	_	29 another	case
29	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	27 state	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Some				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	make	present	the Electoral College	candidates			tree rules
3	care	infinitive	candidates not said here			about small states	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about state=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	present	others				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	College			unfair property	tree rules
6	count	can	a vote		one state than another	for more	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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:politics:016-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported.lesson:10.

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): R6-punct-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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