Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★, sentence 8

While a count is going on, a candidate is only sure to win when the other cannot catch up even if every vote still to count goes to them.

Who acts: count, candidate, other, vote · What happens: go on, be, win, not catch up, count, go · To what, where: candidates

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 (count, candidate, other, vote), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	5 going	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 count	det
3	count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 going	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 sure	advcl
6	on	on	ADP	_	5 going	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 candidate	det
9	candidate	candidate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sure	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sure	cop
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 sure	advmod
12	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 win	mark
14	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sure	xcomp
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 catch	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 other	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 catch	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 catch	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 catch	advmod
20	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 win	ccomp
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 catch	compound:prt
22	even	even	ADV	_	29 goes	advmod
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 goes	mark
24	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 vote	det
25	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 goes	nsubj
26	still	still	ADV	_	28 count	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 count	mark
28	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 vote	acl
29	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 catch	advcl
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 goes	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 sure	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go on	present · progressive	a count				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	a candidate			sure property	tree rules
3	win	to-infinitive	a candidate not said here				tree rules
4	not catch up	can	the other				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	count	to-infinitive	every vote not said here		still		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
6	go a condition, not said to happen	present	every vote	candidates = candidate			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location

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:8.

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): 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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