Who can vote, and why children cannot, sentence 13

Turnout means how many people actually voted; in many elections only about half to two-thirds of the people who could vote do so.

Who acts: Turnout, many people, people · What happens: mean, vote, do · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Turnout, many people, 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	Turnout	turnout	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 voted	nsubj
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 voted	advmod
7	voted	vote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 elections	case
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 elections	amod
11	elections	election	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 half	obl
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 about	advmod
13	about	about	ADV	_	14 half	advmod
14	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	2 means	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 thirds	case
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 thirds	nummod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 two	punct
18	thirds	third	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 half	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 people	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 people	det
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 thirds	nmod
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 vote	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 vote	aux
24	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 people	acl:relcl
25	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 vote	xcomp
26	so	so	ADV	_	25 do	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Turnout		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	vote	past	many people	actually property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	vote	could	the people		tree rules
4	do	infinitive	the people not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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:003-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot.lesson:13.

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 ×2. 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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