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title: A candidate needs 270 of the 538 Electoral College votes to become U… — Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winn… · tree and pragmatics
description: A candidate needs 270 of the 538 Electoral College votes to become US president. Who acts: candidate. A sentence of the lesson «Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winning» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winning, sentence 12

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A candidate needs 270 of the 538 Electoral College votes to become US president.

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**Who acts:** candidate · **What happens:** need, become · **To what, where:** 270, US president

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winning» 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 (candidate), 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:12
# text = A candidate needs 270 of the 538 Electoral College votes to become US president.
# 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 ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	candidate	candidate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	270	270	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	538	538	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
8	Electoral	Electoral	PROPN	NNP	_	9	compound	_	_
9	College	College	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	votes	vote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl
13	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | a candidate | 270 of the 538 College votes |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot 270=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | to-infinitive | a candidate *not said here* | US president |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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:002-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning.lesson:12`.

**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. **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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