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title: On the day, the school hall becomes a polling station, and each vote… — Votes, parties and the people in charge · tree and pragmatics
description: On the day, the school hall becomes a polling station, and each voter puts a cross on a paper in a little booth, in secret. Who acts: school hall, voter. A sentence of the lesson «Votes, parties and the people in charge» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Votes, parties and the people in charge, sentence 3

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On the day, the school hall becomes a polling station, and each voter puts a cross on a paper in a little booth, in secret.

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**Who acts:** school hall, voter · **What happens:** become, put · **To what, where:** polling station, cross, paper

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Votes, parties and the people in charge» of the adult life 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 (school hall, voter), 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:3
# text = On the day, the school hall becomes a polling station, and each voter puts a cross on a paper in a little booth, in secret.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	polling	polling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	voter	voter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	booth	booth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | present | the school hall | a polling station |  |  | day |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **put** | present | each voter | a cross |  | a paper |  | in a little booth; in secret | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent cross=Theme on paper=Destination |

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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.

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**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:3`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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