Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winning, sentence 0
An election is how a whole country, town or school chooses who will be in charge: everyone allowed to vote gets one say, and the votes are counted to find the winner.
Who acts: election, everyone · What happens: be, allow, vote, get, count, find · To what, where: charge, one say, votes, winner
This is a sentence of the lesson «Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winning» 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 (election, 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 election | det |
| 2 | election | election | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chooses | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 chooses | cop |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 chooses | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 country | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 country | amod |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chooses | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 town | punct |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 country | conj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 school | cc |
| 11 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 country | conj |
| 12 | chooses | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 charge | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 charge | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 charge | cop |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 charge | case |
| 17 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chooses | ccomp |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 allowed | punct |
| 19 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 23 gets | nsubj |
| 20 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 everyone | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 vote | mark |
| 22 | vote | vote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 allowed | xcomp |
| 23 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 chooses | parataxis |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 say | nummod |
| 25 | say | say | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gets | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 counted | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 counted | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 votes | det |
| 29 | votes | vote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 counted | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 counted | aux:pass |
| 31 | counted | count | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 gets | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 find | mark |
| 33 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 counted | advcl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 winner | det |
| 35 | winner | winner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 find | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 chooses | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a election | choose property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | future | charge | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | allow | participle | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | vote not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | get | present | everyone | one say | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer say=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | count | present · passive | the votes | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 7 | find | to-infinitive | the winner | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent winner=Topic |
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:002-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning.lesson:0.
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): R3-conj-first ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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