--- title: In Scotland and Wales, 16- and 17-year-olds can vote in their own pa… — Who can vote, and why children cannot · tree and pragmatics description: In Scotland and Wales, 16- and 17-year-olds can vote in their own parliament and council elections; Austria also lets 16-year-olds vote. Who acts: year olds, Austria. 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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 (year olds, Austria), 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:6 # text = In Scotland and Wales, 16- and 17-year-olds can vote in their own parliament and council elections; Austria also lets 16-year-olds 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 Wales Wales PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 16 16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 7 - - PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 17 17 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 11 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 olds old NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 parliament parliament NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 council council NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 elections election NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 Austria Austria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 also also ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj 27 16 16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ _ 29 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ _ 31 olds old NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 32 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **vote** | can | year olds | | | Scotland and Wales | | in Scotland's own parliament and council elections | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **let** | present | Austria | year olds | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **vote** | infinitive | year olds *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:6`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Who can vote, and why children cannot, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot/5/) - next →: [Who can vote, and why children cannot, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot/)