Who can vote, and why children cannot, sentence 14

Being famous or rich does not give you a vote: the rule is one person, one vote, decided by things like age and citizenship.

Who acts: rule · What happens: be, not give, decide · To what, where: vote, you, one person

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 (rule), 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	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 famous	cop
2	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 give	csubj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 rich	cc
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 famous	conj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 give	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 give	advmod
7	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 give	iobj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 vote	det
10	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 person	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rule	det
13	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 person	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 person	cop
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 person	nummod
16	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 vote	punct
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 vote	nummod
19	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 person	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 decided	punct
21	decided	decide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 person	acl
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 things	case
23	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 decided	obl:agent
24	like	like	ADP	_	25 age	case
25	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 things	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 citizenship	cc
27	citizenship	citizenship	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 age	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	gerund				famous property	tree rules
2	be						tree rules
3	not give	present · do-support		a vote	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient vote=Theme
4	is a	present	the rule	one person			tree rules
5	decide	participle		one person not said here			vn correspond-36.1-1 «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:14.

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 ×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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