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title: Your vote is secret, so nobody can bully or pay you to vote their wa… — Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winn… · tree and pragmatics
description: Your vote is secret, so nobody can bully or pay you to vote their way; Mum can tell you who she chose if she wants to, but she never has to. Who acts: vote, nobody, Mum, Your. A sentence of the lesson «Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winning» of the politics course of Mova's primary scho
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# Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winning, sentence 2

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Your vote is secret, so nobody can bully or pay you to vote their way; Mum can tell you who she chose if she wants to, but she never has to.

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**Who acts:** vote, nobody, Mum, Your · **What happens:** be, bully, pay, vote, tell, choose · **To what, where:** you, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (vote, nobody, Mum, Your), 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:2
# text = Your vote is secret, so nobody can bully or pay you to vote their way; Mum can tell you who she chose if she wants to, but she never has to.
# 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 ×3
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:aux
9	bully	bully	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	vote	vote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	xcomp	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	xcomp	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Your vote |  |  |  |  | secret *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bully** | can | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pay** | infinitive | Your vote *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **vote** | to-infinitive | Your vote *not said here* | votes's way |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | Mum |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **choose** | past | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent who=Theme |
| 7 | **want** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 8 | **not** **have** | present | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **vote** |  | Your |  |  |  |  |  | nom vote «act transitive»: poss=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:002-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning.lesson:2`.

**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 ×3. **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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