--- title: Usually only citizens can vote for a country's government, but there… — Who can vote, and why children cannot · tree and pragmatics description: Usually only citizens can vote for a country's government, but there are exceptions: in the UK, Irish and Commonwealth citizens who live there can vote in general elections. Who acts: citizens, exceptions, Irish citizens. 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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 (citizens, exceptions, Irish citizens), 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:9 # text = Usually only citizens can vote for a country's government, but there are exceptions: in the UK, Irish and Commonwealth citizens who live there can vote in general elections. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Usually usually ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 only only ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 3 citizens citizen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 14 expl _ _ 14 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 15 exceptions exception NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:appos 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 Irish Irish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:conj 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 Commonwealth Commonwealth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:compound 24 citizens citizen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 25 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 26 advmod _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 general general ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 elections election NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | citizens | | | | | for a country's government *goal*; usually *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for government=Goal | | 2 | **does** | present | exceptions | | | there | | | tree rules | | 3 | **live** | present | Irish citizens | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **vote** | can | exceptions *not said here* | | | the UK and Irish citizens | | in general elections | 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:9`. **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): R5-strong ×3, 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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot/8/) - next →: [Who can vote, and why children cannot, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot/)