Arguing politely and never calling names, sentence 11

In many countries voting is secret, and nobody has to say how they or their family voted.

Who acts: voting, nobody, view · What happens: be, have, say, vote · To what, where: many countries · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Arguing politely and never calling names» 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 (voting, nobody, view), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 countries	case
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 countries	amod
3	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 secret	obl
4	voting	voting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 secret	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 secret	cop
6	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 has	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 has	cc
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 has	nsubj
10	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 secret	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 say	mark
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 has	xcomp
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 voted	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 voted	nsubj
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 family	cc
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 family	nmod:poss
17	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 they	conj
18	voted	vote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 say	ccomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 secret	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	voting	many countries	secret property	tree rules
2	have	present	nobody			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	nobody not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	vote	past	view			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:039-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names.lesson:11.

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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