Who can vote, and why children cannot, sentence 17
A youth parliament is a group of young people elected to speak for other young people.
Who acts: youth parliament · What happens: be, elect, speak · To what, where: group, young people · 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 (youth parliament), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 parliament | det |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 parliament | compound |
| 3 | parliament | parliament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 group | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 group | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 group | det |
| 6 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 people | case |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 people | amod |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 group | nmod |
| 10 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 people | acl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 speak | mark |
| 12 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 elected | xcomp |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 people | case |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 people | amod |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 people | amod |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 speak | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 group | 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 | a youth parliament | a group | of young people | tree rules | |||
| 2 | elect | participle | young people not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | for other young people | vn talk-37.5 «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:17.
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): no change. 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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