UK elections and the prime minister, as reported, sentence 22

Some say 16-year-olds will live longest with today's decisions and should vote; others say 18 is the clear age of adulthood.

Who acts: Some, year olds, others, 18, today · What happens: say, live, vote, be, decide · To what, where: clear age · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «UK elections and the prime minister, 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, year olds, others, 18), 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	root	root
3	16	16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 year	nummod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 16	punct
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 olds	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 year	punct
7	olds	old	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 live	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 live	aux
9	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 say	ccomp
10	longest	long	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 live	advmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 decisions	case
12	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 decisions	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 today	case
14	decisions	decision	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 live	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 vote	cc
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 vote	aux
17	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 live	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 say	punct
19	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 say	nsubj
20	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	parataxis
21	18	18	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 age	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 age	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 age	det
24	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 age	amod
25	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 say	ccomp
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 adulthood	case
27	adulthood	adulthood	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 age	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Some			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	live	future	year olds		with today's decisions; long property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with decision=Location
3	vote	should	year olds not said here			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	present	others			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	18	the clear age	of adulthood	tree rules
6	decide		today			nom decision «act transitive»: poss=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:017-uk-elections-and-the-prime-minister-as-reported.lesson:22.

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): 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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