Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, sentence 14
New Zealand uses MMP (mixed-member proportional): each voter has an electorate vote for a local MP and a party vote, which decides each party's share of seats.
Who acts: New Zealand, voter, party vote, party · What happens: use, mix, have, decide, share · To what, where: MMP, electorate vote, share, seats
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 (New Zealand, voter, party vote, party), 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 | New | New | PROPN | _ | 2 Zealand | compound |
| 2 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 uses | nsubj |
| 3 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | MMP | MMP | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 uses | obj |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 proportional | punct |
| 6 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 member | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 mixed | punct |
| 8 | member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 proportional | compound |
| 9 | proportional | proportional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 MMP | appos |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 proportional | punct |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 has | punct |
| 12 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 voter | det |
| 13 | voter | voter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 has | nsubj |
| 14 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 uses | parataxis |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 vote | det |
| 16 | electorate | electorate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 vote | compound |
| 17 | vote | vote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 has | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 MP | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 MP | det |
| 20 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 MP | amod |
| 21 | MP | mp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 vote | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 vote | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 vote | det |
| 24 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 vote | compound |
| 25 | vote | vote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 MP | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 decides | punct |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 decides | nsubj |
| 28 | decides | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 vote | acl:relcl |
| 29 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 party | det |
| 30 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 share | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 party | case |
| 32 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 decides | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 seats | case |
| 34 | seats | seat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 share | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 uses | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | New Zealand | MMP | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mmp=Patient | ||||
| 2 | mix | participle | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | have | present | each voter | a electorate vote | for a local MP and a party vote | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vote=Patient | |||
| 4 | decide | present | a party vote | each party's share of seats | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent share=Topic | ||||
| 5 | share | each party | seats | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=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:009-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand.lesson:14.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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