School councils and class reps, sentence 14
Giving gifts for votes is a bribe, and in real elections paying or gifting people for votes is against the law in most countries.
Who acts: Giving · What happens: give, be, pay, gift · To what, where: gifts, bribe, real elections, people, most countries
This is a sentence of the lesson «School councils and class reps» 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 (Giving), 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 | Giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 bribe | csubj |
| 2 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Giving | obj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 votes | case |
| 4 | votes | vote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Giving | obl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 bribe | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bribe | det |
| 7 | bribe | bribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 paying | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 paying | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 elections | case |
| 11 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 elections | amod |
| 12 | elections | election | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 paying | obl |
| 13 | paying | pay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 bribe | conj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 gifting | cc |
| 15 | gifting | gift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 paying | conj |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 gifting | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 votes | case |
| 18 | votes | vote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 gifting | obl |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 law | cop |
| 20 | against | against | ADP | _ | 22 law | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 law | det |
| 22 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bribe | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 countries | case |
| 24 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 countries | amod |
| 25 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 law | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bribe | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | gerund | gifts | for votes | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent gift=Theme for vote=Asset | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Giving | a bribe and the law | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pay | gerund | Giving not said here | real elections | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | gift | gerund | Giving not said here | people | for votes | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent people=Theme | |||
| 5 | is | present | Giving not said here | most countries | against the law | tree rules |
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:037-school-councils-and-class-reps.lesson:14.
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): no change. 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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