Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winning, sentence 7

In the UK and Ireland paper votes are counted by hand in front of observers from every party; in much of the USA, machines scan paper ballots, and the paper can be checked again.

Who acts: hand, machines · What happens: count, scan, check · To what, where: paper votes, UK, paper ballots, much, paper

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 (hand, machines), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 UK	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 UK	det
3	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 counted	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Ireland	cc
5	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 UK	conj
6	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 votes	compound
7	votes	vote	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	by	by	ADP	_	11 hand	case
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 counted	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 front	case
13	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 counted	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 observers	case
15	observers	observer	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 front	nmod
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 party	case
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 party	det
18	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 observers	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 much	punct
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 much	case
21	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 scan	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 USA	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 USA	det
24	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 much	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 scan	punct
26	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 scan	nsubj
27	scan	scan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 counted	parataxis
28	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ballots	compound
29	ballots	ballot	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 scan	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 checked	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 checked	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 paper	det
33	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 checked	nsubj:pass
34	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 checked	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 checked	aux:pass
36	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 scan	conj
37	again	again	ADV	_	36 checked	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 counted	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	present · passive	hand	paper votes	the UK and Ireland		in front of observers from every party	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	scan	present	machines	paper ballots	much of the USA			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ballot=Theme
3	check	can · passive		the paper		again		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:7.

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, R7-rel-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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