--- title: In Australia voting is compulsory for adult citizens: if you do not… — Who can vote, and why children cannot · tree and pragmatics description: In Australia voting is compulsory for adult citizens: if you do not vote and have no good reason, you may get a small fine, though you can still hand in a blank paper. Who acts: voting, you. 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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 (voting, you), 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:11 # text = In Australia voting is compulsory for adult citizens: if you do not vote and have no good reason, you may get a small fine, though you can still hand in a blank paper. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 voting voting NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 compulsory compulsory ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 adult adult ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 citizens citizen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nmod 9 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 10 if if SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 17 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 19 det _ _ 18 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 fine fine NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 28 though though SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 still still ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 hand hand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 33 in in ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 blank blank ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | voting | | | | | for adult citizens; Australia *obl*; compulsory *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **vote** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **have** | present | you *not said here* | no good reason | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | | 4 | **get** | may | you | a small fine | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fine=Stimulus | | 5 | **hand in** | can | you | a blank paper | | | still | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=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:003-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot.lesson:11`. **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, R8-pos-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, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot/10/) - next →: [Who can vote, and why children cannot, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot/)