Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★, sentence 15

In a show of hands people can see each other's votes, so some vote to please friends; a secret ballot lets everyone vote as they really think.

Who acts: people, secret ballot, everyone, other · What happens: see, please, let, vote, think, show · To what, where: votes, show, friends, hands

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 (people, secret ballot, everyone, other), 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 show	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 show	det
3	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 see	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 hands	case
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 show	nmod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 see	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 see	aux
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 other	det
10	other	other	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 votes	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 other	case
12	votes	vote	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 see	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 vote	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 vote	advmod
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 vote	det
16	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 see	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 please	mark
18	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 vote	advcl
19	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 please	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 vote	punct
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	24 lets	nsubj
24	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 see	parataxis
25	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	26 vote	nsubj
26	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 lets	xcomp
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 think	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 think	nsubj
29	really	really	ADV	_	30 think	advmod
30	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 vote	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 see	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	see	can	people	each other's votes	a show of hands	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vote=Stimulus
2	please	to-infinitive	people not said here	friends		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus friend=Experiencer
3	let	present	a secret ballot			tree rules
4	vote	infinitive	everyone			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	think speech: other	present	people			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	show			hands		nom show «act transitive»: of=patient
7	vote		each other			nom vote «act transitive»: poss=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:041-olympiad-fair-votes-close-counts-and-who-decides.lesson:15.

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, 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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