--- title: In a referendum everyone votes yes or no on one question, such as ch… — Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying fri… · tree and pragmatics description: In a referendum everyone votes yes or no on one question, such as changing Ireland's constitution, the country's main set of rules. Who acts: everyone, Ireland. A sentence of the lesson «Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its de --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/) / [Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: s…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends/) / 18 # Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends, sentence 18 In a referendum everyone votes yes or no on one question, such as changing Ireland's constitution, the country's main set of rules. **Who acts:** everyone, Ireland · **What happens:** vote, change, constitute · **To what, where:** yes, referendum, constitution This is a sentence of the lesson «Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends» 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 (everyone, Ireland), 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:18 # text = In a referendum everyone votes yes or no on one question, such as changing Ireland's constitution, the country's main set of rules. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 referendum referendum NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 5 nsubj _ _ 5 votes vote VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:NNS:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 yes yes NOUN NN _ 5 obj _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 no no NOUN NN _ 6 conj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 13 such such ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 14 as as ADP IN _ 13 fixed _ _ 15 changing change VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 nmod _ _ 16 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 constitution constitution NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ _ 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 main main ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 set set NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | everyone | yes or no | | a referendum | | on one question | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yes=Theme | | 2 | **change** | gerund | | Ireland's constitution | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent constitution=Patient | | 3 | **constitute** | | Ireland | | | | | | nom constitution «communication 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: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. 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