Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★, sentence 1

"Most votes" and "more than half" are not the same: with 30 voters, 12 votes can win a race of three, yet 18 people chose someone else, and more than half would mean at least 16.

Who acts: Most votes, 12 votes, 18 people, half · What happens: not be, win, choose, mean · To what, where: race, someone, 16, least

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★» 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 (Most votes, 12 votes, 18 people, half), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 votes	punct
2	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 votes	amod
3	votes	vote	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 same	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 votes	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 half	cc
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 half	punct
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	9 half	advmod
8	than	than	ADP	_	7 more	fixed
9	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	3 votes	conj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 half	punct
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 same	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 same	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 same	det
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 win	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 voters	case
17	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 voters	nummod
18	voters	voter	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 win	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 voters	punct
20	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 votes	nummod
21	votes	vote	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 win	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 win	aux
23	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 same	parataxis
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 race	det
25	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 win	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 three	case
27	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 race	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 chose	punct
29	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	32 chose	cc
30	18	18	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	31 people	nummod
31	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 chose	nsubj
32	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 win	conj
33	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	32 chose	obj
34	else	else	ADV	_	33 someone	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 mean	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 mean	cc
37	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	39 half	advmod
38	than	than	SCONJ	_	37 more	fixed
39	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	41 mean	nsubj
40	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 mean	aux
41	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 chose	conj
42	at	at	ADP	_	43 least	case
43	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	44 16	nmod
44	16	16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	41 mean	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 same	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Most votes and half			same property	tree rules
2	win	can	12 votes	a race of three		with 30 voters	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality
3	choose	past	18 people	someone			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme
4	mean	would	half	16	least		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 16=Topic

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:041-olympiad-fair-votes-close-counts-and-who-decides.lesson:1.

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, R8-pos-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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