--- title: In the UK grown-ups can vote from the age of 18; children cannot vot… — Votes, parties and the people in charge · tree and pragmatics description: In the UK grown-ups can vote from the age of 18; children cannot vote yet, but they can still write letters and have their say. Who acts: grown ups, children. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grown ups, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:031-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge.lesson:19 # text = In the UK grown-ups can vote from the age of 18; children cannot vote yet, but they can still write letters and have their say. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 031-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge.lesson # annotation = 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 6 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 18 18 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nmod _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 19 yet yet ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 still still ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 write write VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 26 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 say say NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 31 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **vote** | can | grown ups | | | the UK | from the age of 18 | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **vote** | can | children | | | | yet | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **write** | can | children *= child* | letters | | | still | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme | | 5 | **have** | infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | children's say | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent say=Patient | | 6 | **say** | | children *= child* | | | | | | nom say «state intransitive»: 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:031-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge.lesson:19`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Votes, parties and the people in charge, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/31-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge/18/) - next →: [Bad news, protests and helping others, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/31-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge/)