Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winning, sentence 16

People disagree about voting by post: some say it lets more people take part, others say it is harder to check who filled in the form.

Who acts: People, some, post, more people, others · What happens: disagree, vote, say, let, take, be · To what, where: part, form · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (People, some, post, more people), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 disagree	nsubj
2	disagree	disagree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 voting	case
4	voting	vote	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 disagree	obl
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 post	case
6	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 voting	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 say	nsubj
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 disagree	parataxis
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lets	nsubj
11	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 say	ccomp
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 people	amod
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 take	nsubj
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 lets	xcomp
15	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct
17	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 say	nsubj
18	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 say	parataxis
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 harder	expl
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 harder	cop
21	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 say	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 check	mark
23	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 harder	csubj
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 filled	nsubj
25	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 check	ccomp
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 form	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 form	det
28	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 filled	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 disagree	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	disagree	present	People				vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	vote	gerund				by post	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	present	some				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	let	present	post				tree rules
5	take	infinitive	more people	part			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme
6	say speech: assert	present	others				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is	present				hard property	tree rules
8	check	to-infinitive					tree rules
9	fill	past			the form		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: 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:16.

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 ×4. 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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