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title: Many countries let people vote by post or early, so people who are i… — Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winn… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many countries let people vote by post or early, so people who are ill, away or busy can still vote. Who acts: Many countries, people. A sentence of the lesson «Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winning» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winning, sentence 8

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Many countries let people vote by post or early, so people who are ill, away or busy can still vote.

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**Who acts:** Many countries, people · **What happens:** let, vote, be · **To what, where:** people

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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 (Many countries, 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:8
# text = Many countries let people vote by post or early, so people who are ill, away or busy can still vote.
# 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	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	vote	vote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	conj	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	vote	vote	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | infinitive | Many countries | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **vote** | infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by post | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | people |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **vote** | can | people |  |  |  | still |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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:8`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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