--- title: In most countries the voting age is 18; it is a line drawn at an age… — Who can vote, and why children cannot · tree and pragmatics description: In most countries the voting age is 18; it is a line drawn at an age, not a test of how much you know. Who acts: voting age, age, you. 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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 (voting age, age, you), 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:5 # text = In most countries the voting age is 18; it is a line drawn at an age, not a test of how much you know. # 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 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 voting voting NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 18 18 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 14 drawn draw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 24 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 acl:relcl _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the voting age | 18 | | most countries | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | age | a line | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **draw** | participle | | a line *not said here* | | | at a age | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **know** | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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:5`. **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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot/4/) - next →: [Who can vote, and why children cannot, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot/)