US elections and the president, as reported, sentence 9
The US president is chosen by the Electoral College: each state has a number of electors, most states give all of theirs to the winner there, and 270 of the 538 electors are needed to win.
Who acts: Electoral College, state, most states, 270 · What happens: choose, have, give, need, win · To what, where: US president, number, all, winner, 270
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 (Electoral College, state, most states, 270), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 president | det |
| 2 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 president | compound |
| 3 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chosen | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 chosen | aux:pass |
| 5 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 College | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 College | det |
| 8 | Electoral | Electoral | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 College | compound |
| 9 | College | College | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 chosen | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 has | punct |
| 11 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 state | det |
| 12 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 has | nsubj |
| 13 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 chosen | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 number | det |
| 15 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 has | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 electors | case |
| 17 | electors | elector | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 number | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 states | punct |
| 19 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 states | amod |
| 20 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 give | nsubj |
| 21 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 has | conj |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 give | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 theirs | case |
| 24 | theirs | their | PRON | Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 all | nmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 winner | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 winner | det |
| 27 | winner | winner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 give | obl |
| 28 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 winner | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 needed | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 needed | cc |
| 31 | 270 | 270 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 37 needed | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 electors | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 electors | det |
| 34 | 538 | 538 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 35 electors | nummod |
| 35 | electors | elector | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 270 | nmod |
| 36 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 needed | aux:pass |
| 37 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 give | conj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 win | mark |
| 39 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 needed | xcomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 chosen | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | present · passive | the Electoral College | the US president | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | each state | a number of electors | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient | ||||
| 3 | give | infinitive | most states | all | the winner | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent all=Theme to winner=Recipient | |||
| 4 | need | present · passive | 270 of the 538 electors | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | win not said to happen | to-infinitive | 270 of the 538 electors not said here | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=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:politics:016-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported.lesson:9.
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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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