Laws, voting and how a country is run, sentence 9
Voting is secret: you mark your choice alone, so nobody can punish or reward you for it.
Who acts: Voting, you, nobody · What happens: be, mark, punish, reward · To what, where: choice, you
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 (Voting, you, nobody), 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 | Voting | voting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 secret | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 secret | cop |
| 3 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 mark | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 mark | nsubj |
| 6 | mark | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 secret | parataxis |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 choice | nmod:poss |
| 8 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mark | obj |
| 9 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 6 mark | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 punish | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 punish | advmod |
| 12 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 punish | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 punish | aux |
| 14 | punish | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 mark | parataxis |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 reward | cc |
| 16 | reward | reward | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 punish | conj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 reward | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 reward | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 secret | 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 | is | present | Voting | secret property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mark | present | you | your choice | alone property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent choice=Destination | |||
| 3 | punish | can | nobody | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | reward | infinitive | nobody not said here | you | for Voting | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for it=Attribute |
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: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): R7-rel-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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