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title: In the UK, the USA and New Zealand, voting is a free choice, not a d… — Who can vote, and why children cannot · tree and pragmatics
description: In the UK, the USA and New Zealand, voting is a free choice, not a duty. Who acts: voting. A sentence of the lesson «Who can vote, and why children cannot» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Who can vote, and why children cannot, sentence 12

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In the UK, the USA and New Zealand, voting is a free choice, not a duty.

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**Who acts:** voting · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** free choice, UK

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Who can vote, and why children cannot» 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 (voting), 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:12
# text = In the UK, the USA and New Zealand, voting is a free choice, not a duty.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	New	New	PROPN	NNP	_	9	compound	_	_
9	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
11	voting	voting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **is a** | present | voting | a free choice |  | the UK and the USA and New Zealand |  |  | tree rules |

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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:003-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot.lesson:12`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×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/).

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