--- title: Not everyone can vote: in most countries you must be 18, and usually… — Who can vote, and why children cannot · tree and pragmatics description: Not everyone can vote: in most countries you must be 18, and usually a citizen, and your name must be on the official list of voters; these are rules people chose, and people argue about changing them. Who acts: everyone, you, name, these. 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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 (everyone, you, name, these), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:003-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot.lesson:0 # text = Not everyone can vote: in most countries you must be 18, and usually a citizen, and your name must be on the official list of voters; these are rules people chose, and people argue about changing them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 003-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot.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): R1-cc-next ×3, R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 2 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 amod _ _ 8 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 cop _ _ 12 18 18 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 parataxis _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc 15 usually usually ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 citizen citizen NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=12:punct 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc 20 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 22 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 cop _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 official official ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 list list NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=17:conj 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 voters voter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 31 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 33 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 32 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 parataxis _ _ 34 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 chose choose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=33:cc 38 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 39 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 40 about about SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 41 changing change VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:obl 42 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **vote** | can | everyone | | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | must | you | 18 and a citizen and the official list | | most countries | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | must | your name | | | the official list | | of voters | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | these | rules | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **choose** | past | people | rules *not said here* | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme | | 6 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | people | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **change** | gerund | people *not said here* | people | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 8 | **name** | | your | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:003-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot.lesson:0`. **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): R1-cc-next ×3, R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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. 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