Who can vote, and why children cannot, sentence 15
In the UK most people in prison cannot vote; in Ireland and Canada they can; people argue about which is right.
Who acts: most people, people · What happens: not vote, argue, be · To what, where: UK, Ireland
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 (most 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 people | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 UK | det |
| 3 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 vote | obl |
| 4 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 people | amod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 vote | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 prison | case |
| 7 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 people | nmod |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 vote | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 vote | advmod |
| 10 | vote | vote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 Ireland | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Ireland | case |
| 13 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 vote | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Canada | cc |
| 15 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Ireland | conj |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 can | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 vote | advcl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 argue | punct |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 argue | nsubj |
| 20 | argue | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 vote | parataxis |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 24 right | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 right | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 right | cop |
| 24 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 argue | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 vote | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not vote | can | most people in prison | the UK | Ireland and Canada | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | argue speech: disagree | present | people | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | right property | 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:15.
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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