--- title: The age line is not a cleverness test: a 9-year-old may know more ab… — Who can vote, and why children cannot · tree and pragmatics description: The age line is not a cleverness test: a 9-year-old may know more about planets than Uncle Steve, but the rule is drawn at an age so it is the same for everyone, famous or not, rich or poor. Who acts: age line, year old, line. 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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 (age line, year old, line), 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:1 # text = The age line is not a cleverness test: a 9-year-old may know more about planets than Uncle Steve, but the rule is drawn at an age so it is the same for everyone, famous or not, rich or poor. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 cleverness cleverness NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 11 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 15 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 nsubj _ _ 16 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 18 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 obj _ _ 19 about about ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 planets planet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 21 than than ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 Uncle uncle NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod:desc _ _ 23 Steve Steve PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 drawn draw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 conj _ _ 30 at at ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 so so ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 advcl _ _ 38 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 37 obl _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 42 or or CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 conj _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 45 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 conj _ _ 46 or or CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 conj _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | **not** **is a** | present | the age line | a cleverness test | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **know** | may | a year old | more | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | | 3 | **draw** | present · passive | | the rule | | | at a age | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | line | | | | | for everyone; same *property* | tree rules | 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:1`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [Who can vote, and why children cannot, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot/0/) - next →: [Who can vote, and why children cannot, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot/)