--- title: In the US presidential election, each state gives its votes to the w… — Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winn… · tree and pragmatics description: In the US presidential election, each state gives its votes to the winner in that state (two small states split theirs); this is the Electoral College, and TV shows it as a red (Republican) and blue (Democrat) map. Who acts: state, two small states, this, TV. 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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 (state, two small states, this, TV), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:002-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning.lesson:11 # text = In the US presidential election, each state gives its votes to the winner in that state (two small states split theirs); this is the Electoral College, and TV shows it as a red (Republican) and blue (Democrat) map. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 002-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning.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 ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 4 presidential presidential ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 election election NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 votes vote NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 winner winner NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 det _ _ 17 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 19 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 20 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 states state NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod 22 split split VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 theirs their PRON PRP Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 26 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 Electoral Electoral PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 College College PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 TV TV NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 as as ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 38 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 39 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 40 punct _ _ 40 Republican Republican ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 38 appos _ _ 41 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 40 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 conj _ _ 44 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 45 punct _ _ 45 Democrat Democrat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 46 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 45 punct _ _ 47 map map NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present | each state | election's votes | the winner in that state | the US presidential election | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent vote=Theme to winner=Recipient | | 2 | **split** | past | two small states | votes *= vote* | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent their=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | present | this | the Electoral College | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **show** | present | TV | election | | | | as a red Democrat map | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 5 | **vote** | | election | | | | | | nom vote «act 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:002-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning.lesson:11`. **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 ×2. **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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