Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, sentence 7
In Australia, voting in national elections is compulsory for adult citizens, so almost everyone takes part; in the USA, voting is a free choice.
Who acts: everyone, voting · What happens: vote, be, take · To what, where: national elections, Australia, part, free choice, USA
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 (everyone, voting), 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 | 9 compulsory | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Australia | punct |
| 4 | voting | vote | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 compulsory | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 elections | case |
| 6 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 elections | amod |
| 7 | elections | election | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 voting | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 compulsory | cop |
| 9 | compulsory | compulsory | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 citizens | case |
| 11 | adult | adult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 citizens | amod |
| 12 | citizens | citizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 compulsory | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 takes | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 takes | advmod |
| 15 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 16 everyone | advmod |
| 16 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 17 takes | nsubj |
| 17 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 compulsory | parataxis |
| 18 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 takes | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 takes | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 USA | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 USA | det |
| 22 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 choice | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 choice | punct |
| 24 | voting | voting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 choice | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 choice | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 choice | det |
| 27 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 choice | amod |
| 28 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 compulsory | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 compulsory | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vote | gerund | national elections | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Australia | for adult citizens; compulsory property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | present | everyone | part | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | voting | a free choice | the USA | tree rules |
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:7.
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 ×3. 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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