Who can vote, and why children cannot, sentence 9

Usually only citizens can vote for a country's government, but there are exceptions: in the UK, Irish and Commonwealth citizens who live there can vote in general elections.

Who acts: citizens, exceptions, Irish citizens · What happens: vote, be, live · To what, where: UK

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 (citizens, exceptions, Irish citizens), 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	Usually	usually	ADV	_	5 vote	advmod
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 citizens	advmod
3	citizens	citizen	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 vote	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 vote	aux
5	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	10 government	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 country	det
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 government	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 country	case
10	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 vote	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 are	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 are	cc
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 are	expl
14	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 vote	conj
15	exceptions	exception	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 are	nsubj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 UK	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 UK	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 UK	det
19	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 vote	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Irish	punct
21	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 citizens	amod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 citizens	cc
23	Commonwealth	Commonwealth	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Irish	conj
24	citizens	citizen	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 UK	conj
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 live	nsubj
26	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 citizens	acl:relcl
27	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 live	advmod
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 vote	aux
29	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 are	ccomp
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 elections	case
31	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 elections	amod
32	elections	election	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 vote	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 vote	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	vote	can	citizens		for a country's government goal; usually property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for government=Goal
2	does	present	exceptions	there		tree rules
3	live	present	Irish citizens	there		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	vote	can	exceptions not said here	the UK and Irish citizens	in general elections	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:9.

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): R5-strong ×3, 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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