School councils and class reps, sentence 8

When people can see how you vote they may vote to please friends, which is why real elections use a secret ballot.

Who acts: people, you · What happens: see, vote, please, be · To what, where: friends · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (people, you), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 see	advmod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 vote	advcl
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 vote	advmod
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 vote	nsubj
7	vote	vote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 see	ccomp
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 vote	nsubj
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 vote	aux
10	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 please	mark
12	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 vote	advcl
13	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 please	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 use	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 use	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 use	cop
17	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	20 use	advmod
18	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 elections	amod
19	elections	election	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 use	nsubj
20	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 vote	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 ballot	det
22	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ballot	amod
23	ballot	ballot	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 use	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 vote	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	can	people			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	vote	present	you			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	vote	may	people			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	please	to-infinitive	people not said here	friends		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus friend=Experiencer
5	is	present			use property	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:8.

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 ×2, R6-punct-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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