--- title: People disagree about voting by post: some say it lets more people t… — Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winn… · tree and pragmatics description: People disagree about voting by post: some say it lets more people take part, others say it is harder to check who filled in the form. Who acts: People, some, post, more people. 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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 (People, some, post, more people), 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:16 # text = People disagree about voting by post: some say it lets more people take part, others say it is harder to check who filled in the form. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×4 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 disagree disagree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 about about ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 voting vote VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 obl _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 post post NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 9 nsubj _ _ 9 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 12 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 amod _ _ 13 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:nsubj 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 harder hard ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 ccomp _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:xcomp 24 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 filled fill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **disagree** | present | People | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **vote** | gerund | | | | | | by post | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | some | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **let** | present | post | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **take** | infinitive | more people | part | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | others | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | present | | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **check** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **fill** | past | | | | the form | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:16`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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