Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winning, sentence 12
A candidate needs 270 of the 538 Electoral College votes to become US president.
Who acts: candidate · What happens: need, become · To what, where: 270, US president
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 (candidate), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 candidate | det |
| 2 | candidate | candidate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 needs | nsubj |
| 3 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | 270 | 270 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 needs | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 votes | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 votes | det |
| 7 | 538 | 538 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 votes | nummod |
| 8 | Electoral | Electoral | PROPN | _ | 9 College | compound |
| 9 | College | College | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 votes | compound |
| 10 | votes | vote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 270 | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 become | mark |
| 12 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 needs | advcl |
| 13 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 president | compound |
| 14 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 become | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 needs | 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 | need | present | a candidate | 270 of the 538 College votes | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot 270=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | to-infinitive | a candidate not said here | US president | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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:12.
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 ×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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