Who can vote, and why children cannot, sentence 4
Children cannot vote, but decisions about schools, parks and the planet affect them for longest, so they can still learn, ask questions, write to leaders and talk to the grown-ups who do vote.
Who acts: Children, decisions, grown ups · What happens: not vote, affect, learn, ask, write, talk · To what, where: Children, questions, leaders
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 (Children, decisions, grown ups), 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 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 vote | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 vote | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 vote | advmod |
| 4 | vote | vote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 affect | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 affect | cc |
| 7 | decisions | decision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 affect | nsubj |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 schools | case |
| 9 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 decisions | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 parks | punct |
| 11 | parks | park | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 schools | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 planet | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 planet | det |
| 14 | planet | planet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 schools | conj |
| 15 | affect | affect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 vote | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 affect | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 longest | case |
| 18 | longest | long | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 affect | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 learn | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 learn | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 learn | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 learn | aux |
| 23 | still | still | ADV | _ | 24 learn | advmod |
| 24 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 vote | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ask | punct |
| 26 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 learn | conj |
| 27 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 ask | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 write | punct |
| 29 | write | write | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 vote | parataxis |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 leaders | case |
| 31 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 write | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 talk | cc |
| 33 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 29 write | conj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 ups | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 ups | det |
| 36 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 ups | amod |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 grown | punct |
| 38 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 talk | obl |
| 39 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 vote | nsubj |
| 40 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 vote | aux |
| 41 | vote | vote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 ups | acl:relcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 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 | Children | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | affect | present | decisions about schools and parks and the planet | Children = child | for longest | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | learn | can | decisions = decision | still | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | decisions = decision not said here | questions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | write | infinitive | leaders | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to leader=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | talk | infinitive | to the grown ups | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to up=Co-Agent | |||||
| 7 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | vote | present · do-support | the grown ups | 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:4.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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.
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