--- title: In many countries you must register to vote, which puts your name on… — Who can vote, and why children cannot · tree and pragmatics description: In many countries you must register to vote, which puts your name on the official voters' list (the electoral register or electoral roll); this helps stop people voting twice. Who acts: you, this, your, official voters. 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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 (you, this, your, official voters), 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:10 # text = In many countries you must register to vote, which puts your name on the official voters' list (the electoral register or electoral roll); this helps stop people voting twice. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 register register VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 parataxis _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 puts put VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 12 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 official official ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 voters voter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 ' 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 list list NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 20 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 electoral electoral ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 register register NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:conj 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 electoral electoral ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 roll roll NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 nsubj _ _ 30 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 31 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 32 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 33 voting vote VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:acl 34 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 33 advmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **register** | must | you | | | many countries | | | tree rules | | 2 | **vote** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **put** | present | | your name | | the official voters's list | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme on list=Destination | | 4 | **help** | present | this | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **stop** | infinitive | this *not said here* | people | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **vote** | gerund | this *not said here* | | | | | twice *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **name** | | your | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **list** | | the official voters | | | | | | nom list «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:10`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×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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