Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★, sentence 6
In Australia voters number the candidates in order; if nobody has more than half, the last candidate is knocked out and those papers go to each voter's next choice, again and again until someone has more than half.
Who acts: voters, nobody, papers, someone · What happens: number, have, knock out, go · To what, where: candidates, Australia, half, last candidate, next choice
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 (voters, nobody, papers, someone), 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 | _ | 2 Australia | case |
| 2 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 number | obl |
| 3 | voters | voter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 number | nsubj |
| 4 | number | number | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 knocked | parataxis |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 candidates | det |
| 6 | candidates | candidate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 number | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 order | case |
| 8 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 number | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 has | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 has | mark |
| 11 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 has | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 knocked | advcl |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 15 half | advmod |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 more | fixed |
| 15 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 12 has | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 has | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 candidate | det |
| 18 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 candidate | amod |
| 19 | candidate | candidate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 knocked | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 knocked | aux:pass |
| 21 | knocked | knock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 knocked | compound:prt |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 go | cc |
| 24 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 25 papers | det |
| 25 | papers | paper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 go | nsubj |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 knocked | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 choice | case |
| 28 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 voter | det |
| 29 | voter | voter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 choice | nmod:poss |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 voter | case |
| 31 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 choice | amod |
| 32 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 go | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 again | punct |
| 34 | again | again | ADV | _ | 26 go | advmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 again | cc |
| 36 | again | again | ADV | _ | 34 again | conj |
| 37 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 39 has | mark |
| 38 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 39 has | nsubj |
| 39 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 go | advcl |
| 40 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 42 half | advmod |
| 41 | than | than | ADP | _ | 42 half | case |
| 42 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 39 has | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 number | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | number | present | voters | the candidates | in Australia goal; in order | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent candidate=Theme in australia=Goal | |||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | nobody | half | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient | ||||
| 3 | knock out | present · passive | the last candidate | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | go | present | that papers | each voter's next choice | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to choice=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | have | present | someone | half | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient |
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:6.
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 ×5, R6-punct-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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