--- title: In the UK and Ireland paper votes are counted by hand in front of ob… — Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winn… · tree and pragmatics description: In the UK and Ireland paper votes are counted by hand in front of observers from every party; in much of the USA, machines scan paper ballots, and the paper can be checked again. Who acts: hand, machines. A sentence of the lesson «Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winning» of the politics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/2-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/) / [Elections and voting: ballots, countin…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/2-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning/) / 7 # Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winning, sentence 7 In the UK and Ireland paper votes are counted by hand in front of observers from every party; in much of the USA, machines scan paper ballots, and the paper can be checked again. **Who acts:** hand, machines · **What happens:** count, scan, check · **To what, where:** paper votes, UK, paper ballots, much, paper 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 (hand, machines), 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:7 # text = In the UK and Ireland paper votes are counted by hand in front of observers from every party; in much of the USA, machines scan paper ballots, and the paper can be checked again. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 votes vote 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 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 observers observer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 18 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 machines machine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 scan scan VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 28 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 ballots ballot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 checked check VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 37 again again ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 38 . . 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 | **count** | present · passive | hand | paper votes | | the UK and Ireland | | in front of observers from every party | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 2 | **scan** | present | machines | paper ballots | | much of the USA | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ballot=Theme | | 3 | **check** | can · passive | | the paper | | | again | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:7`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-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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