--- title: An exit poll asks some voters how they voted as they leave, then gue… — Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winn… · tree and pragmatics description: An exit poll asks some voters how they voted as they leave, then guesses the result; it is often close to the real result, but not always right. Who acts: exit poll, polls, result. 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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 (exit poll, polls, result), 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:15 # text = An exit poll asks some voters how they voted as they leave, then guesses the result; it is often close to the real result, but not always right. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 exit exit NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 poll poll NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 6 det _ _ 6 voters voter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 voted vote VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl:relcl 10 as as SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ _ 15 guesses guess VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 result result NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 often often ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj 23 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 result result NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 30 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 31 advmod _ _ 31 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a exit poll | some voters | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent voter=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **vote** | past | polls *= poll* | | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **leave** | present | polls *= poll* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **guess** | present | a exit poll *not said here* | the result | | | then | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent result=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | result | | | | | to the real result; close, often *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **be** | | result *not said here* | | | | | always *property* | tree rules | 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:15`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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