Who can vote, and why children cannot, sentence 10
In many countries you must register to vote, which puts your name on the official voters' list (the electoral register or electoral roll); this helps stop people voting twice.
Who acts: you, this, your, official voters · What happens: register, vote, put, help, stop, name · To what, where: many countries, name, list, people
This is a sentence of the lesson «Who can vote, and why children cannot» 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 (you, this, your, official voters), 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 countries | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 countries | amod |
| 3 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 register | obl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 register | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 register | aux |
| 6 | register | register | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 helps | parataxis |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 vote | mark |
| 8 | vote | vote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 register | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 puts | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 puts | nsubj |
| 11 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 vote | ccomp |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 name | nmod:poss |
| 13 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 puts | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 list | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 voters | det |
| 16 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 voters | amod |
| 17 | voters | voter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 list | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 17 voters | case |
| 19 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 puts | obl |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 register | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 register | det |
| 22 | electoral | electoral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 register | amod |
| 23 | register | register | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 list | appos |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 roll | cc |
| 25 | electoral | electoral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 roll | amod |
| 26 | roll | roll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 register | conj |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 register | punct |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 helps | punct |
| 29 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 helps | nsubj |
| 30 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 31 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 helps | xcomp |
| 32 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 stop | obj |
| 33 | voting | vote | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 stop | xcomp |
| 34 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 33 voting | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 register | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | register | must | you | many countries | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | vote | to-infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | put | present | your name | the official voters's list | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme on list=Destination | ||||
| 4 | help | present | this | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | stop | infinitive | this not said here | people | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | vote | gerund | this not said here | twice property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | name | your | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | list | the official voters | nom list «communication transitive»: poss=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:003-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot.lesson:10.
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, R6-punct-agree ×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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