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title: Later Grandad winks at you: «Who I voted for is between me and the b… — Votes, parties and the people in charge · tree and pragmatics
description: Later Grandad winks at you: «Who I voted for is between me and the ballot box.» Nobody was wrong to argue, and nobody has to say how they voted. Who acts: Grandad, Nobody. A sentence of the lesson «Votes, parties and the people in charge» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Votes, parties and the people in charge, sentence 5

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Later Grandad winks at you: «Who I voted for is between me and the ballot box.» Nobody was wrong to argue, and nobody has to say how they voted.

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**Who acts:** Grandad, Nobody · **What happens:** wink, vote for, be, argue, have, say · **To what, where:** Nobody · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Grandad, Nobody), 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:5
# text = Later Grandad winks at you: «Who I voted for is between me and the ballot box.» Nobody was wrong to argue, and nobody has to say how they voted.
# 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): no change
1	Later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
2	Grandad	grandad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	winks	wink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
8	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	voted	vote	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	csubj	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	between	between	ADP	IN	_	3	ccomp	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	ballot	ballot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
21	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	argue	argue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	29	nsubj	_	_
29	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	34	advmod	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	voted	vote	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	ccomp	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wink** | present | Grandad |  |  |  |  | at you; late *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **vote for** *in a quote* | past | Nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent who=Result |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | Nobody |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | Nobody |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | to-infinitive | Nobody *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **have** | present | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | nobody *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **vote** | past | Grandad |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:5`.

**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.

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

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