School councils and class reps, sentence 2
Fair voting needs a secret ballot, slips of paper in a box, so nobody votes just to please a best friend, and no lollies for votes, because that is a bribe.
Who acts: Fair voting, nobody, that, paper · What happens: need, vote, please, be, slip · To what, where: secret ballot, best friend, bribe, box
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 (Fair voting, nobody, that, paper), 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 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 voting | amod |
| 2 | voting | voting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 needs | nsubj |
| 3 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ballot | det |
| 5 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ballot | amod |
| 6 | ballot | ballot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 needs | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 slips | punct |
| 8 | slips | slip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ballot | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 paper | case |
| 10 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slips | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 box | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 box | det |
| 13 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slips | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 votes | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 votes | advmod |
| 16 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 votes | nsubj |
| 17 | votes | vote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 needs | parataxis |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 please | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 please | mark |
| 20 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 votes | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 friend | det |
| 22 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 friend | amod |
| 23 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 please | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 lollies | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 lollies | cc |
| 26 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 27 lollies | det |
| 27 | lollies | lolly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ballot | conj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 votes | case |
| 29 | votes | vote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 lollies | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 bribe | punct |
| 31 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 35 bribe | mark |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 bribe | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 bribe | cop |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 bribe | det |
| 35 | bribe | bribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 needs | advcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 needs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | Fair voting | a secret ballot and slips of paper in a box and no lollies for votes | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot ballot=Theme | ||||
| 2 | vote | present | nobody | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | please | to-infinitive | nobody not said here | a best friend | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus friend=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | that | a bribe | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | slip | paper | a box | nom slip «act intransitive»: of=agent in=place |
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:2.
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 ×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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