Laws, voting and how a country is run, sentence 1
In a democracy the people choose a smaller group to decide for them, by voting in an election.
Who acts: people · What happens: choose, decide, vote · To what, where: smaller group, democracy, election
This is a sentence of the lesson «Laws, voting and how a country is run» of the world 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 (people), 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 | 6 choose | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 people | det |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 choose | nsubj |
| 6 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 group | det |
| 8 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 group | amod |
| 9 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 choose | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 decide | mark |
| 11 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 group | acl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 decide | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 voting | punct |
| 15 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 16 voting | mark |
| 16 | voting | vote | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 decide | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 election | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 election | det |
| 19 | election | election | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 voting | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 choose | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | present | the people | a smaller group | a democracy | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Theme | |||
| 2 | decide | to-infinitive | the people not said here | a smaller group not said here | for people | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | vote | gerund | the people not said here | a election | vn dub-29.3.2 «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:world:096-laws-voting-government.lesson:1.
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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