--- title: In a general election grown-ups vote for who will run the country; e… — Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and… · tree and pragmatics description: In a general election grown-ups vote for who will run the country; elections come back every few years, and the losers accept the result and try again. Who acts: grown, elections, losers. 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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 (grown, elections, losers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:052-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion.lesson:14 # text = In a general election grown-ups vote for who will run the country; elections come back every few years, and the losers accept the result and try again. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 052-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion.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 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 general general ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 election election NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 5 grown grow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 ups ups NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 compound _ _ 8 vote vote VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 9 for for SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 11 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 acl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 16 elections election NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 come come VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 back back ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 21 det _ _ 20 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 losers loser NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 accept accept VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 result result NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 try try VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:conj 31 again again ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **vote** | present | grown | a general election *not said here* | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent election=Theme | | 2 | **run** | future | | the country | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme country=Trajectory | | 3 | **come back** | infinitive | elections | | | a general election | year | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in election=Location | | 4 | **accept** | present | the losers | the result | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent result=Theme | | 5 | **try** | infinitive | the losers *not said here* | | | | again | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:052-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion.lesson:14`. **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. 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