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title: In Australia voters number the candidates in order; parties hand out… — Adverts, slogans and polls · tree and pragmatics
description: In Australia voters number the candidates in order; parties hand out how-to-vote cards, but voters may number the boxes any way they like. Who acts: voters, parties. A sentence of the lesson «Adverts, slogans and polls» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the
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# Adverts, slogans and polls, sentence 17

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In Australia voters number the candidates in order; parties hand out how-to-vote cards, but voters may number the boxes any way they like.

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**Who acts:** voters, parties · **What happens:** number, hand out, like · **To what, where:** Australia, order, vote cards, boxes, way

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Adverts, slogans and polls» of the politics 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 (voters, parties), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:012-adverts-slogans-and-polls.lesson:17
# text = In Australia voters number the candidates in order; parties hand out how-to-vote cards, but voters may number the boxes any way they like.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 012-adverts-slogans-and-polls.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	voters	voter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	number	number	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	candidates	candidate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nmod
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	hand	hand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
13	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
17	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	voters	voter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	number	number	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **number** | present | voters | Australia |  |  |  | in order *goal* | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent candidate=Theme in order=Goal |
| 2 | **hand out** | present | parties | vote cards |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent card=Theme |
| 3 | **number** | may | voters | the boxes |  |  |  | any way *obl:unmarked* | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme |
| 4 | **like** | present | voters *= voter* | any way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot way=Theme |

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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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**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:politics:012-adverts-slogans-and-polls.lesson:17`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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/).

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