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description: Some countries, such as New Zealand, have youth parliaments where young people debate in the real chamber and send ideas to politicians, though their votes do not make laws. Who acts: countries, young people, votes, people. A sentence of the lesson «School councils and class reps» of the politics co
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# School councils and class reps, sentence 12

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Some countries, such as New Zealand, have youth parliaments where young people debate in the real chamber and send ideas to politicians, though their votes do not make laws.

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**Who acts:** countries, young people, votes, people · **What happens:** have, debate, send, not make, vote · **To what, where:** youth parliaments, real chamber, ideas, politicians, laws

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This is a sentence of the lesson «School councils and class reps» of the politics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (countries, young people, votes, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:037-school-councils-and-class-reps.lesson:12
# text = Some countries, such as New Zealand, have youth parliaments where young people debate in the real chamber and send ideas to politicians, though their votes do not make laws.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 037-school-councils-and-class-reps.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 ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	7	case	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
7	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	parliaments	parliament	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
13	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	debate	debate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc
21	send	send	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
22	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	politicians	politician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	votes	vote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
29	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
32	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | some countries such New Zealand | youth parliaments |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parliament=Patient |
| 2 | **debate** | present | young people |  |  | the real chamber |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **send** | present | young people *not said here* | ideas |  | politicians |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent idea=Theme to politician=Destination |
| 4 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | people's votes | laws |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset law=Product |
| 5 | **vote** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom vote «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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 ×1, R5-strong ×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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