--- title: Being famous or rich does not give you a vote: the rule is one perso… — Who can vote, and why children cannot · tree and pragmatics description: Being famous or rich does not give you a vote: the rule is one person, one vote, decided by things like age and citizenship. Who acts: rule. 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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 (rule), 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:14 # text = Being famous or rich does not give you a vote: the rule is one person, one vote, decided by things like age and citizenship. # 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 ×2 1 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 cop _ _ 2 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 csubj _ _ 3 or or CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 5 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 give give VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 iobj _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 vote vote NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 vote vote NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 decided decide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj 22 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl:agent _ _ 24 like like ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 citizenship citizenship NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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** | gerund | | | | | | famous *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **give** | present · do-support | | a vote | you | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient vote=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | the rule | one person | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **decide** | participle | | one person *not said here* | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «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:14`. **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 ×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, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot/13/) - next →: [Who can vote, and why children cannot, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot/)