--- title: Think of a school council: everyone has a vote, but in the UN Securi… — Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth · tree and pragmatics description: Think of a school council: everyone has a vote, but in the UN Security Council five permanent members can each block a decision on their own, which is a bit like five pupils who can veto any plan. Who acts: you, everyone, Council five permanent members, five pupils. 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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 (you, everyone, Council five permanent members, five pupils), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:038-todays-world-the-un-the-eu-and-the-commonwealth.lesson:2 # text = Think of a school council: everyone has a vote, but in the UN Security Council five permanent members can each block a decision on their own, which is a bit like five pupils who can veto any plan. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 038-todays-world-the-un-the-eu-and-the-commonwealth.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 ×4 1 Think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 council council NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 8 nsubj _ _ 8 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 vote vote NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:det 15 UN UN PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:compound 16 Security Security PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 Council Council PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 18 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 19 permanent permanent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 members member NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 each each ADV RB PronType=Tot 23 advmod _ _ 23 block block VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 ccomp _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 decision decision NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:obl 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 34 like like ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ _ 36 pupils pupil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 37 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 39 nsubj _ _ 38 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 veto veto VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:acl:relcl 40 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 41 det _ _ 41 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | of a school council | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **have** | present | everyone | a vote | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vote=Patient | | 3 | **block** | can | Council five permanent members | a decision | | members's own | | each *property* | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent decision=Patient on own=Location | | 4 | **is a** | present | | a bit | | | | like five pupils | tree rules | | 5 | **veto** | can | five pupils | any plan | | | | | tree rules | 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:geography:038-todays-world-the-un-the-eu-and-the-commonwealth.lesson:2`. **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 ×4. **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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