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title: A youth parliament is a group of young people elected to speak for o… — Who can vote, and why children cannot · tree and pragmatics
description: A youth parliament is a group of young people elected to speak for other young people. Who acts: youth parliament. 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 17

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A youth parliament is a group of young people elected to speak for other young people.

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**Who acts:** youth parliament · **What happens:** be, elect, speak · **To what, where:** group, young people · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (youth parliament), 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:17
# text = A youth parliament is a group of young people elected to speak for other young people.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	parliament	parliament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | a youth parliament | a group |  |  |  | of young people | tree rules |
| 2 | **elect** | participle |  | young people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for other young people | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:17`.

**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): no change. **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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