Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, sentence 12

Ireland uses the single transferable vote: voters rank candidates, each area elects several people, and votes are counted round by round, which can take days.

Who acts: Ireland, voters, area · What happens: use, rank, elect, count, take · To what, where: single transferable vote, candidates, several people, votes

This is a sentence of the lesson «Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand» 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 (Ireland, voters, area), 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	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 uses	nsubj
2	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 vote	det
4	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 vote	amod
5	transferable	transferable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 vote	amod
6	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uses	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 rank	punct
8	voters	voter	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 rank	nsubj
9	rank	rank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 uses	parataxis
10	candidates	candidate	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 rank	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 elects	punct
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 area	det
13	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 elects	nsubj
14	elects	elect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 uses	conj
15	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 people	amod
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 elects	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 counted	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 counted	cc
19	votes	vote	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 counted	nsubj:pass
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 counted	aux:pass
21	counted	count	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 elects	conj
22	round	round	ADV	_	21 counted	advmod
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 round	case
24	round	round	ADV	_	21 counted	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 round	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 take	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 take	aux
28	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 round	acl:relcl
29	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 take	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 uses	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	Ireland	the single transferable vote			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vote=Patient
2	rank	present	voters	candidates			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent candidate=Theme
3	elect	present	each area	several people			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
4	count	present · passive		votes		round property	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	take	can			day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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.

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:009-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand.lesson:12.

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): 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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