Who can vote, and why children cannot, sentence 5
In most countries the voting age is 18; it is a line drawn at an age, not a test of how much you know.
Who acts: voting age, age, you · What happens: be, draw, know · To what, where: 18, most countries, line, age
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 (voting age, age, you), 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 | _ | 3 countries | case |
| 2 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 countries | amod |
| 3 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 18 | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 age | det |
| 5 | voting | voting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 age | compound |
| 6 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 18 | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 18 | cop |
| 8 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 line | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 line | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 line | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 line | det |
| 13 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 18 | parataxis |
| 14 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 line | acl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 age | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 age | det |
| 17 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drawn | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 test | punct |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 test | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 test | det |
| 21 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 line | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 much | case |
| 23 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 much | advmod |
| 24 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 test | acl:relcl |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 know | nsubj |
| 26 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 much | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 18 | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the voting age | 18 | most countries | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | age | a line | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | draw | participle | a line not said here | at a age | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:5.
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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