--- title: In the UK most people in prison cannot vote; in Ireland and Canada t… — Who can vote, and why children cannot · tree and pragmatics description: In the UK most people in prison cannot vote; in Ireland and Canada they can; people argue about which is right. Who acts: most 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 (most 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:15 # text = In the UK most people in prison cannot vote; in Ireland and Canada they can; people argue about which is right. # 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 In in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det 3 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:compound 4 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 amod _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 21 about about ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **vote** | can | most people in prison | the UK | | Ireland and Canada | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | people | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | 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:15`. **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, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot/14/) - next →: [Who can vote, and why children cannot, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot/)