---
title: A polling station is a place, often a school or church hall, where p… — Votes, parties and the people in charge · tree and pragmatics
description: A polling station is a place, often a school or church hall, where people vote in secret in a small booth. Who acts: polling station, people. 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 the pragmati
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/31-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge/9/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Votes, parties and the people in charge](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/31-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge/) / 9

# Votes, parties and the people in charge, sentence 9

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A polling station is a place, often a school or church hall, where people vote in secret in a small booth.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** polling station, people · **What happens:** be, vote · **To what, where:** place, secret

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (polling station, people), 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:9
# text = A polling station is a place, often a school or church hall, where people vote in secret in a small booth.
# 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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	polling	polling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	often	often	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	vote	vote	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:acl:relcl
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	booth	booth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a polling station | a place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **vote** | present | people |  |  | secret |  | in a small booth | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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: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): R5-strong ×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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Votes, parties and the people in charge, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/31-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge/8/)
- next →: [Votes, parties and the people in charge, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/31-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge/10/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/31-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge/)