--- title: Children cannot vote, but decisions about schools, parks and the pla… — Who can vote, and why children cannot · tree and pragmatics description: Children cannot vote, but decisions about schools, parks and the planet affect them for longest, so they can still learn, ask questions, write to leaders and talk to the grown-ups who do vote. Who acts: Children, decisions, grown ups. 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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 (Children, decisions, grown ups), 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:4 # text = Children cannot vote, but decisions about schools, parks and the planet affect them for longest, so they can still learn, ask questions, write to leaders and talk to the grown-ups who do vote. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 7 decisions decision NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 8 about about ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 parks park NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 planet planet NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 15 affect affect VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 longest long ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 still still ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 27 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 write write VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 leaders leader NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 talk talk VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 36 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 amod _ _ 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ _ 38 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 39 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 40 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 acl:relcl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | Children | | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **affect** | present | decisions about schools and parks and the planet | Children *= child* | | | | for longest | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | | 3 | **learn** | can | decisions *= decision* | | | | still | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | decisions *= decision* *not said here* | questions | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | | 5 | **write** | infinitive | | | leaders | | | | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to leader=Recipient | | 6 | **talk** | infinitive | | | | | | to the grown ups | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to up=Co-Agent | | 7 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **vote** | present · do-support | the grown ups | | | | | | 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:4`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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