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title: In each area the person with the most votes wins and second place ge… — UK elections and the prime minister, as reported · tree and pragmatics
description: In each area the person with the most votes wins and second place gets nothing, a system called "first past the post". Who acts: person, second place. A sentence of the lesson «UK elections and the prime minister, as reported» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree 
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# UK elections and the prime minister, as reported, sentence 3

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In each area the person with the most votes wins and second place gets nothing, a system called "first past the post".

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**Who acts:** person, second place · **What happens:** win, get, call · **To what, where:** area, nothing, system · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «UK elections and the prime minister, as reported» 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 (person, second place), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:017-uk-elections-and-the-prime-minister-as-reported.lesson:3
# text = In each area the person with the most votes wins and second place gets nothing, a system called "first past the post".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 017-uk-elections-and-the-prime-minister-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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	votes	vote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	wins	win	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
13	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	14	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	xcomp	_	_
22	past	past	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | present | the person with votes |  |  | each area |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in area=Eventuality |
| 2 | **get** | present | second place | nothing |  |  |  | a system *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  | a system *not said here* |  |  |  | first *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:017-uk-elections-and-the-prime-minister-as-reported.lesson:3`.

**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): no change. **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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