Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winning, sentence 11
In the US presidential election, each state gives its votes to the winner in that state (two small states split theirs); this is the Electoral College, and TV shows it as a red (Republican) and blue (Democrat) map.
Who acts: state, two small states, this, TV, election · What happens: give, split, be, show, vote · To what, where: votes, winner, US presidential election, Electoral College, election
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 (state, two small states, this, TV), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 election | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 election | det |
| 3 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 election | compound |
| 4 | presidential | presidential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 election | amod |
| 5 | election | election | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gives | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gives | punct |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 state | det |
| 8 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gives | nsubj |
| 9 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 votes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | votes | vote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gives | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 winner | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 winner | det |
| 14 | winner | winner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gives | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 state | case |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 state | det |
| 17 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 winner | nmod |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 states | punct |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 states | nummod |
| 20 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 states | amod |
| 21 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 split | nsubj |
| 22 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gives | parataxis |
| 23 | theirs | their | PRON | Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 split | obj |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 split | punct |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 gives | punct |
| 26 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 College | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 College | cop |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 College | det |
| 29 | Electoral | Electoral | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 College | compound |
| 30 | College | College | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 gives | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 shows | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 shows | cc |
| 33 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 shows | nsubj |
| 34 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 College | conj |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 shows | obj |
| 36 | as | as | ADP | _ | 47 map | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 map | det |
| 38 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 map | amod |
| 39 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 40 Republican | punct |
| 40 | Republican | Republican | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 red | appos |
| 41 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 40 Republican | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 blue | cc |
| 43 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 red | conj |
| 44 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 45 Democrat | punct |
| 45 | Democrat | Democrat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 map | compound |
| 46 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 45 Democrat | punct |
| 47 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 shows | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | each state | election's votes | the winner in that state | the US presidential election | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent vote=Theme to winner=Recipient | ||
| 2 | split | past | two small states | votes = vote | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent their=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | this | the Electoral College | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | show | present | TV | election | as a red Democrat map | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | |||
| 5 | vote | election | nom vote «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:002-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning.lesson:11.
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 ×2. 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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