Who can vote, and why children cannot, sentence 6

In Scotland and Wales, 16- and 17-year-olds can vote in their own parliament and council elections; Austria also lets 16-year-olds vote.

Who acts: year olds, Austria · What happens: vote, let · To what, where: Scotland, year olds

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 (year olds, Austria), 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	_	2 Scotland	case
2	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 vote	obl
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Wales	cc
4	Wales	Wales	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Scotland	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 16	punct
6	16	16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 year	nummod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 16	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 year	cc
9	17	17	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 year	nummod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 17	punct
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 olds	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 year	punct
13	olds	old	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 vote	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 vote	aux
15	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 parliament	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 parliament	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 parliament	amod
19	parliament	parliament	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 vote	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 elections	cc
21	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 elections	compound
22	elections	election	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 parliament	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 lets	punct
24	Austria	Austria	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 lets	nsubj
25	also	also	ADV	_	26 lets	advmod
26	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 vote	parataxis
27	16	16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 year	nummod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 16	punct
29	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 olds	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 year	punct
31	olds	old	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 lets	obj
32	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 lets	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 vote	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	vote	can	year olds		Scotland and Wales	in Scotland's own parliament and council elections	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	let	present	Austria	year olds			tree rules
3	vote	infinitive	year olds 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:6.

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 ×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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