--- title: Children cannot vote yet, and being undecided is fine; people make u… — Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying fri… · tree and pragmatics description: Children cannot vote yet, and being undecided is fine; people make up their minds by learning and listening over many years. Who acts: Children, people. 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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 (Children, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:015-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends.lesson:13 # text = Children cannot vote yet, and being undecided is fine; people make up their minds by learning and listening over many years. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 015-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 yet yet ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 cop _ _ 9 undecided undecided ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 csubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 minds mind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 18 by by SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 19 learning learn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 listening listen VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 conj _ _ 22 over over ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obj 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **vote** | can | Children | | | | yet | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | undecided *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | Children *not said here* | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **make up** | present | people | People's minds | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | | 5 | **learn** | gerund | people *not said here* | | | | year | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **listen** | gerund | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **mind** | | People | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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:politics:015-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends.lesson:13`. **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, R7-rel-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. 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