--- title: Voting is choosing who runs the country or the local council; in the… — Money, work and the big choices · tree and pragmatics description: Voting is choosing who runs the country or the local council; in the UK most people can vote from eighteen, and grown-ups are allowed to disagree about whom to vote for. Who acts: Voting, most people, grown ups. 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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 (Voting, most people, grown ups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:039-money-work-and-the-big-choices.lesson:18 # text = Voting is choosing who runs the country or the local council; in the UK most people can vote from eighteen, and grown-ups are allowed to disagree about whom to vote for. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 039-money-work-and-the-big-choices.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Voting voting NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 choosing choose VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 local local ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 council council NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 16 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 17 amod _ _ 17 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 eighteen eighteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:_ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ _ 26 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 allowed allow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 disagree disagree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 about about SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 34 obj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 ccomp _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 34 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **choose** | present · progressive | Voting | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **run** | present | | the country or the local council | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme country=Trajectory | | 3 | **vote** | can | most people | | | the UK | | from eighteen | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **allow** | present · passive | | grown ups | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **disagree** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | grown ups *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **vote** | to-infinitive | grown ups *not said here* | | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent whom=Result | 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:039-money-work-and-the-big-choices.lesson:18`. **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): 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: [Money, work and the big choices, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/17/) - next →: [Being a good grown-up, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/)