Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, sentence 9
In Australia, voters number the candidates in order of preference; if nobody has more than half, the last candidate is knocked out and their votes go to next choices, until someone has more than half.
Who acts: voters, nobody, votes, someone, candidates · What happens: number, have, knock out, go, order, vote · To what, where: candidates, Australia, half, last candidate, next choices, preference
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 (voters, nobody, votes, 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 | 5 number | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 number | punct |
| 4 | voters | voter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 number | nsubj |
| 5 | number | number | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 knocked | parataxis |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 candidates | det |
| 7 | candidates | candidate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 number | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 order | case |
| 9 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 candidates | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 preference | case |
| 11 | preference | preference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 order | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 number | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 has | mark |
| 14 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 has | nsubj |
| 15 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 knocked | advcl |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 18 half | advmod |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 more | fixed |
| 18 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 15 has | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 half | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 candidate | det |
| 21 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 candidate | amod |
| 22 | candidate | candidate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 knocked | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 knocked | aux:pass |
| 24 | knocked | knock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 knocked | compound:prt |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 go | cc |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 votes | nmod:poss |
| 28 | votes | vote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 go | nsubj |
| 29 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 knocked | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 choices | case |
| 31 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 choices | amod |
| 32 | choices | choice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 go | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 has | punct |
| 34 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 36 has | mark |
| 35 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 36 has | nsubj |
| 36 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 go | advcl |
| 37 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 39 half | advmod |
| 38 | than | than | ADP | _ | 39 half | case |
| 39 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 36 has | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 number | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | number | present | voters | the candidates | in Australia goal; in order of preference | 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 | candidates's votes | next choices | 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 | ||||
| 6 | order | preference | nom order «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | vote | candidates = candidate | nom vote «act transitive»: poss=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:9.
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, 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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