Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winning, sentence 8
Many countries let people vote by post or early, so people who are ill, away or busy can still vote.
Who acts: Many countries, people · What happens: let, vote, be · To what, where: people
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 (Many countries, 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 countries | amod |
| 2 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 let | nsubj |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | vote | vote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 post | case |
| 7 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 vote | obl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 early | cc |
| 9 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 post | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 vote | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 vote | advmod |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 vote | nsubj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 ill | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ill | cop |
| 15 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 people | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 away | punct |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 ill | conj |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 busy | cc |
| 19 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ill | conj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 vote | aux |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 vote | advmod |
| 22 | vote | vote | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 vote | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | Many countries | people | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | vote | infinitive | people not said here | by post | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | people | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | people not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | vote | can | people | still | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:8.
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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