Who can vote, and why children cannot, sentence 12
In the UK, the USA and New Zealand, voting is a free choice, not a duty.
Who acts: voting · What happens: be · To what, where: free choice, UK
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), 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 | 15 choice | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 USA | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 USA | det |
| 6 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 UK | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Zealand | cc |
| 8 | New | New | PROPN | _ | 9 Zealand | compound |
| 9 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 USA | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 USA | punct |
| 11 | voting | voting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 choice | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 choice | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 choice | det |
| 14 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 choice | amod |
| 15 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 duty | punct |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 duty | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 duty | det |
| 19 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 choice | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 choice | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | voting | a free choice | the UK and the USA and New Zealand | tree rules |
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:12.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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