--- title: Turnout means how many people actually voted; in many elections only… — Who can vote, and why children cannot · tree and pragmatics description: Turnout means how many people actually voted; in many elections only about half to two-thirds of the people who could vote do so. Who acts: Turnout, many people, people. 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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 (Turnout, many people, people), 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:13 # text = Turnout means how many people actually voted; in many elections only about half to two-thirds of the people who could vote do so. # 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 ×2 1 Turnout turnout NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 4 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obj 6 actually actually ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 voted vote VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 elections election NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 12 only only ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 about about ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 2 conj _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 thirds third NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 22 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 23 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 acl:relcl _ _ 25 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Turnout | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **vote** | past | many people | | | | | actually *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **vote** | could | the people | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **do** | infinitive | the people *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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:13`. **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 ×2. **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, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot/12/) - next →: [Who can vote, and why children cannot, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot/)