School councils and class reps, sentence 4

Losing hurts, but a fair vote is still fair; a good meeting has a chair who makes room for every voice, even the youngest and quietest.

Who acts: fair vote, good meeting, chair · What happens: lose, hurt, be, have, make · To what, where: chair, room

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 vote, good meeting, chair), 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	Losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Ger	2 hurts	nsubj
2	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fair	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 fair	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 vote	det
6	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 vote	amod
7	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fair	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fair	cop
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 fair	advmod
10	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hurts	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 has	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 meeting	det
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 meeting	amod
14	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 has	nsubj
15	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fair	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 chair	det
17	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 has	obj
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 makes	nsubj
19	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 chair	acl:relcl
20	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 makes	obj
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 voice	case
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 voice	det
23	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 room	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 youngest	punct
25	even	even	ADV	_	27 youngest	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 youngest	det
27	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 voice	appos
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 quietest	cc
29	quietest	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 youngest	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hurts	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lose	gerund					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hurt	present					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	a fair vote		still	fair property	tree rules
4	have	present	a good meeting	a chair			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chair=Patient
5	make	present	a chair	room		for every voice	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent room=Product for voice=Asset

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:4.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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