--- title: Countries still differ: 16-year-olds vote in Scottish and Welsh elec… — Who can vote, and why children cannot · tree and pragmatics description: Countries still differ: 16-year-olds vote in Scottish and Welsh elections, Australians must vote or pay a small fine, and some countries let prisoners vote while others do not. Who acts: Countries, year olds, Australians, prisoners. 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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 (Countries, year olds, Australians, prisoners), 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:3 # text = Countries still differ: 16-year-olds vote in Scottish and Welsh elections, Australians must vote or pay a small fine, and some countries let prisoners vote while others do not. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 still still ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 differ differ VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 5 16 16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:compound 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 9 olds old NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 vote vote VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 Scottish Scottish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc 14 Welsh welsh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 15 elections election NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 17 Australians australian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 18 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 parataxis _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=19:cc 21 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 fine fine NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 28 det _ _ 28 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 let let VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 30 prisoners prisoner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 while while SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **differ** | present | Countries | | | | still | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **vote** | present | year olds | | | Scottish elections | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **vote** | must | Australians | | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **pay** | infinitive | Australians *not said here* | a small fine | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fine=Asset | | 5 | **let** | present | some countries | prisoners | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **vote** | infinitive | prisoners *not said here* | | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: 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:3`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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. 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