Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★, sentence 14

A poll's margin of error is its wobble: if one party is 2 points ahead and the wobble is 3, the race is too close to call.

Who acts: margin, one party, wobble, race · What happens: be, call · To what, where: wobble, 2 points, 3 · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (margin, one party, wobble, race), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 poll	det
2	poll	poll	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 margin	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 poll	case
4	margin	margin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wobble	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 error	case
6	error	error	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 margin	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 wobble	cop
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wobble	nmod:poss
9	wobble	wobble	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 points	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 points	mark
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 party	nummod
13	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 points	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 points	cop
15	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 points	nummod
16	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wobble	advcl
17	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	16 points	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 3	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wobble	det
20	wobble	wobble	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 3	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 3	cop
22	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 points	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 close	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 race	det
25	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 close	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 close	cop
27	too	too	ADV	_	28 close	advmod
28	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wobble	parataxis
29	to	to	PART	_	30 call	mark
30	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 close	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 wobble	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a poll's margin of error	margin's wobble		tree rules
2	is a a condition, not said to happen	present	one party	2 points	ahead property	tree rules
3	is a	present	the wobble	3		tree rules
4	is	present	the race		close property	tree rules
5	call	to-infinitive	the race not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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.

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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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