--- title: A polling station is the place, often a school or church hall, where… — Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winn… · tree and pragmatics description: A polling station is the place, often a school or church hall, where people go to vote; they mark a ballot paper in a private booth and put it into a sealed ballot box. Who acts: polling station, 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 (polling station, 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:6 # text = A polling station is the place, often a school or church hall, where people go to vote; they mark a ballot paper in a private booth and put it into a sealed ballot box. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 polling polling NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 station station NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 often often ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 10 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 17 advmod _ _ 16 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 mark mark VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 ballot ballot NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 booth booth NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 put put VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 into into ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 sealed seal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 amod _ _ 36 ballot ballot NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a polling station | the place | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | present | people | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **vote** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mark** | present | people | a ballot paper | | a private booth | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent paper=Theme in booth=Destination | | 5 | **put** | present | people *not said here* | paper | | a sealed ballot box | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | | 6 | **seal** | participle | | | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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:6`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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. 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