Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winning, sentence 5

Voting is secret: a secret ballot means nobody sees your choice, so nobody can bully or pay you to vote their way.

Who acts: Voting, secret ballot, nobody · What happens: be, mean, see, bully, pay, vote · To what, where: choice, you, way · 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 (Voting, secret ballot, nobody), 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	Voting	voting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 secret	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 secret	cop
3	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ballot	det
6	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ballot	amod
7	ballot	ballot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 means	nsubj
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 secret	parataxis
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 sees	nsubj
10	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 means	ccomp
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 choice	nmod:poss
12	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sees	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pay	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 bully	advmod
15	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 bully	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 bully	aux
17	bully	bully	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 pay	conj
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 pay	cc
19	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 means	conj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 pay	iobj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 vote	mark
22	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 pay	advcl
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 way	nmod:poss
24	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 vote	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 secret	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Voting			secret property	tree rules
2	mean	present	a secret ballot				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see	present	nobody	your choice			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer choice=Stimulus
4	bully	can	nobody				vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent
5	pay	infinitive	a secret ballot not said here		you		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Asset
6	vote	to-infinitive	a secret ballot not said here	votes's way			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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:5.

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 ×3. 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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