Rights, duties and community dilemmas, sentence 9
In a democracy decisions are often made by voting, and the side with more votes, the majority, wins.
Who acts: voting, side · What happens: make, win · To what, where: decisions, democracy
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rights, duties and community dilemmas» of the religion ethics 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 (voting, side), 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 | _ | 3 democracy | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 democracy | det |
| 3 | democracy | democracy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obl |
| 4 | decisions | decision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 made | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | aux:pass |
| 6 | often | often | ADV | _ | 7 made | advmod |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 voting | case |
| 9 | voting | voting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 side | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wins | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 side | det |
| 13 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wins | nsubj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 votes | case |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 votes | amod |
| 16 | votes | vote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 side | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 majority | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 majority | det |
| 19 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 side | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wins | punct |
| 21 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | voting | decisions | a democracy | often property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | ||
| 2 | win | present | the side with more votes | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: 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:religion-ethics:049-rights-duties-and-community.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): no change. 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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