--- title: After the polls close, the papers are counted, often by hand in big… — Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winn… · tree and pragmatics description: After the polls close, the papers are counted, often by hand in big halls late at night, with watchers from every party making sure it is fair; a close result can be counted again, and the loser usually congratulates the winner. Who acts: polls, hand, watchers, paper. 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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 (polls, hand, watchers, paper), 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:3 # text = After the polls close, the papers are counted, often by hand in big halls late at night, with watchers from every party making sure it is fair; a close result can be counted again, and the loser usually congratulates the winner. # 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): no change 1 After after SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 polls poll NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 close close VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 papers paper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 counted count VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 often often ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 12 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 halls hall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 17 late late ADV RB Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 with with SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 22 watchers watcher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 25 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 27 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 ccomp _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 result result NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 counted count VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 parataxis _ _ 38 again again ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 loser loser NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 43 usually usually ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 congratulates congratulate VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 winner winner NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 47 . . 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 | **close** | present | the polls | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **count** | present · passive | hand | the papers | | big halls | night | late, often *property* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 3 | **make** | gerund | watchers from every party | | | | | sure *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **is** | present | paper | | | | | fair *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **count** | can · passive | | a close result | | | again | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **congratulate** | present | the loser | the winner | | | | usually *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent winner=Theme | 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:3`. **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): no change. **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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