Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★, sentence 4
People exaggerate and play things down about votes too: "literally everyone voted for me" may mean 40 kids out of 200, and "I lost by a teeny bit" may mean 3 votes to 27, so always count the real numbers.
Who acts: People, everyone, I · What happens: exaggerate, play down, vote, mean, lose, count · To what, where: things, 40 kids, 200, 3 votes, real numbers · 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 (People, everyone, I), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 exaggerate | nsubj |
| 2 | exaggerate | exaggerate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 play | cc |
| 4 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 exaggerate | conj |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 play | obj |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 play | compound:prt |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 votes | case |
| 8 | votes | vote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 play | obl |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 down | advmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 voted | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 voted | punct |
| 12 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 13 everyone | advmod |
| 13 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 14 voted | nsubj |
| 14 | voted | vote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 exaggerate | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 voted | obl |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 voted | punct |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 mean | aux |
| 19 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 exaggerate | conj |
| 20 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 kids | nummod |
| 21 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 mean | obj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 200 | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 200 | case |
| 24 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 mean | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 lost | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 lost | cc |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 lost | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 lost | nsubj |
| 29 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 exaggerate | advcl |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 bit | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 bit | det |
| 32 | teeny | teeny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 bit | amod |
| 33 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lost | obl |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 lost | punct |
| 35 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 mean | aux |
| 36 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 lost | parataxis |
| 37 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 38 votes | nummod |
| 38 | votes | vote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 mean | obj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 27 | case |
| 40 | 27 | 27 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 38 votes | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 count | punct |
| 42 | so | so | ADV | _ | 44 count | advmod |
| 43 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 44 count | advmod |
| 44 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 lost | conj |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 numbers | det |
| 46 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 numbers | amod |
| 47 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 count | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 exaggerate | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exaggerate | present | People | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | play down | present | People not said here | things | about votes | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | |||
| 3 | vote in a quote | past | everyone | for me goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for i=Goal | ||||
| 4 | mean | may | People not said here | 40 kids | 200 | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Topic | |||
| 5 | lose in a quote | past | I | by a teeny bit | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | mean | may | 3 votes | to 27 | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot vote=Theme to 27=Attribute | ||||
| 7 | count | infinitive | I not said here | the real numbers | always property | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme |
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:4.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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