Who can vote, and why children cannot, sentence 11

In Australia voting is compulsory for adult citizens: if you do not vote and have no good reason, you may get a small fine, though you can still hand in a blank paper.

Who acts: voting, you · What happens: be, not vote, have, get, hand in · To what, where: good reason, small fine, blank paper

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 (voting, you), 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	_	5 compulsory	case
2	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 compulsory	obl
3	voting	voting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 compulsory	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 compulsory	cop
5	compulsory	compulsory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 citizens	case
7	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 citizens	amod
8	citizens	citizen	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 compulsory	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 vote	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 vote	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 vote	nsubj
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 vote	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 vote	advmod
14	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 get	advcl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 have	cc
16	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 vote	conj
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 reason	det
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 reason	amod
19	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 have	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 get	punct
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 get	nsubj
22	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 get	aux
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 compulsory	parataxis
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 fine	det
25	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 fine	amod
26	fine	fine	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 get	punct
28	though	though	SCONJ	_	32 hand	mark
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 hand	nsubj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 hand	aux
31	still	still	ADV	_	32 hand	advmod
32	hand	hand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 get	advcl
33	in	in	ADP	_	32 hand	compound:prt
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 paper	det
35	blank	blank	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 paper	amod
36	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hand	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 compulsory	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	voting			for adult citizens; Australia obl; compulsory property	tree rules
2	not vote a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	you				vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	have	present	you not said here	no good reason			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient
4	get	may	you	a small fine			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fine=Stimulus
5	hand in	can	you	a blank paper	still		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=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:003-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot.lesson:11.

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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