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title: An election is when adults vote to choose their leaders and represen… — Votes, parties and the people in charge · tree and pragmatics
description: An election is when adults vote to choose their leaders and representatives; candidates send leaflets to explain their promises. Who acts: election, candidates, adults. A sentence of the lesson «Votes, parties and the people in charge» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# Votes, parties and the people in charge, sentence 8

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An election is when adults vote to choose their leaders and representatives; candidates send leaflets to explain their promises.

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**Who acts:** election, candidates, adults · **What happens:** be, choose, send, explain, promise · **To what, where:** leaders, leaflets, promises

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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 (election, candidates, adults), 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:8
# text = An election is when adults vote to choose their leaders and representatives; candidates send leaflets to explain their promises.
# 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	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	vote	vote	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	representatives	representative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	candidates	candidate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	send	send	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	leaflets	leaflet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	promises	promise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is** | present | a election |  |  |  |  | vote *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **choose** | to-infinitive | a election *not said here* | adults's leaders and representatives |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leader=Theme |
| 3 | **send** | present | candidates | leaflets |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaflet=Theme |
| 4 | **explain** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | candidates *not said here* | adults's promises |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Topic |
| 5 | **promise** |  | adults *= adult* |  |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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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**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.

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