Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winning, sentence 3
After the polls close, the papers are counted, often by hand in big halls late at night, with watchers from every party making sure it is fair; a close result can be counted again, and the loser usually congratulates the winner.
Who acts: polls, hand, watchers, paper, loser · What happens: close, count, make, be, congratulate · To what, where: papers, big halls, close result, 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 (polls, hand, watchers, paper), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 close | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 polls | det |
| 3 | polls | poll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 close | nsubj |
| 4 | close | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 counted | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 counted | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 papers | det |
| 7 | papers | paper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 counted | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 counted | aux:pass |
| 9 | counted | count | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 often | punct |
| 11 | often | often | ADV | _ | 9 counted | advmod |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 hand | case |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 counted | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 halls | case |
| 15 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 halls | amod |
| 16 | halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 counted | obl |
| 17 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 counted | advmod |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 night | case |
| 19 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 counted | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 making | punct |
| 21 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 26 making | mark |
| 22 | watchers | watcher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 making | nsubj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 party | case |
| 24 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 party | det |
| 25 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 watchers | nmod |
| 26 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 counted | advcl |
| 27 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 making | xcomp |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 fair | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 fair | cop |
| 30 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 sure | ccomp |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 counted | punct |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 result | det |
| 33 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 result | amod |
| 34 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 counted | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 counted | aux |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 counted | aux:pass |
| 37 | counted | count | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 counted | parataxis |
| 38 | again | again | ADV | _ | 37 counted | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 congratulates | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 congratulates | cc |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 loser | det |
| 42 | loser | loser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 congratulates | nsubj |
| 43 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 44 congratulates | advmod |
| 44 | congratulates | congratulate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 counted | conj |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 winner | det |
| 46 | winner | winner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 congratulates | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 counted | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | present | the polls | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | count | present · passive | hand | the papers | big halls | night | late, often property | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |
| 3 | make | gerund | watchers from every party | sure property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | is | present | paper | fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | count | can · passive | a close result | again | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | congratulate | present | the loser | the winner | usually property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent winner=Theme |
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:3.
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): no change. 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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