--- title: The US president is chosen by the Electoral College: each state has… — US elections and the president, as reported · tree and pragmatics description: The US president is chosen by the Electoral College: each state has a number of electors, most states give all of theirs to the winner there, and 270 of the 538 electors are needed to win. Who acts: Electoral College, state, most states, 270. 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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 (Electoral College, state, most states, 270), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:016-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported.lesson:9 # text = The US president is chosen by the Electoral College: each state has a number of electors, most states give all of theirs to the winner there, and 270 of the 538 electors are needed to win. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 016-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 president president NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 chosen choose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 Electoral Electoral PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 College College PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 12 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 electors elector NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 20 amod _ _ 20 states state NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod 21 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 22 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 21 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 theirs their PRON PRP Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 winner winner NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nmod 28 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advmod 29 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 31 270 270 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 538 538 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 electors elector NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ _ 36 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 needed need VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 win win VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 40 . . 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 | **choose** | present · passive | the Electoral College | the US president | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 2 | **have** | present | each state | a number of electors | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient | | 3 | **give** | infinitive | most states | all | the winner | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent all=Theme to winner=Recipient | | 4 | **need** | present · passive | | 270 of the 538 electors | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **win** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | 270 of the 538 electors *not said here* | | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=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:016-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported.lesson:9`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×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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