Who can vote, and why children cannot, sentence 3

Countries still differ: 16-year-olds vote in Scottish and Welsh elections, Australians must vote or pay a small fine, and some countries let prisoners vote while others do not.

Who acts: Countries, year olds, Australians, prisoners · What happens: differ, vote, pay, let · To what, where: Scottish elections, small fine, prisoners

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 (Countries, year olds, Australians, prisoners), 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	Countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 differ	nsubj
2	still	still	ADV	_	3 differ	advmod
3	differ	differ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 vote	punct
5	16	16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 year	nummod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 16	punct
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 olds	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 year	punct
9	olds	old	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 vote	nsubj
10	vote	vote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 differ	parataxis
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 elections	case
12	Scottish	Scottish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 elections	amod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Welsh	cc
14	Welsh	welsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Scottish	conj
15	elections	election	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 vote	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 vote	punct
17	Australians	australian	PROPN	Number=Plur	19 vote	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 vote	aux
19	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 vote	parataxis
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 pay	cc
21	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 vote	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 fine	det
23	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fine	amod
24	fine	fine	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pay	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 let	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 let	cc
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 countries	det
28	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 let	nsubj
29	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 differ	conj
30	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 let	obj
31	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 let	xcomp
32	while	while	SCONJ	_	34 do	mark
33	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 do	nsubj
34	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 let	advcl
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 do	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 differ	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	differ	present	Countries			still	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	vote	present	year olds		Scottish elections		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	vote	must	Australians				vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	pay	infinitive	Australians not said here	a small fine			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fine=Asset
5	let	present	some countries	prisoners			tree rules
6	vote	infinitive	prisoners not said here				vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: 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:3.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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.

See the release 0.4.

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