Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winning, sentence 6

A polling station is the place, often a school or church hall, where people go to vote; they mark a ballot paper in a private booth and put it into a sealed ballot box.

Who acts: polling station, people · What happens: be, go, vote, mark, put, seal · To what, where: place, ballot paper, private booth, paper, sealed ballot box

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 (polling station, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 station	det
2	polling	polling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 station	compound
3	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 place	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 place	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 place	det
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hall	punct
8	often	often	ADV	_	13 hall	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hall	det
10	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hall	compound
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 church	cc
12	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 school	conj
13	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 place	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 go	advmod
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 go	nsubj
17	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 hall	acl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 vote	mark
19	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 go	xcomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 mark	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 mark	nsubj
22	mark	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 place	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 paper	det
24	ballot	ballot	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 paper	compound
25	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mark	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 booth	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 booth	det
28	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 booth	amod
29	booth	booth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mark	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 put	cc
31	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 mark	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 put	obj
33	into	into	ADP	_	37 box	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 box	det
35	sealed	seal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 box	amod
36	ballot	ballot	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 box	compound
37	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 put	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 place	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	a polling station	the place		tree rules
2	go	present	people			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	vote	to-infinitive	people not said here			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	mark	present	people	a ballot paper	a private booth	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent paper=Theme in booth=Destination
5	put	present	people not said here	paper	a sealed ballot box	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
6	seal	participle				vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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:6.

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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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