--- title: Giving gifts for votes is a bribe, and in real elections paying or g… — School councils and class reps · tree and pragmatics description: Giving gifts for votes is a bribe, and in real elections paying or gifting people for votes is against the law in most countries. Who acts: Giving. 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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 (Giving), 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:14 # text = Giving gifts for votes is a bribe, and in real elections paying or gifting people for votes is against the law in most countries. # 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): no change 1 Giving give VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 csubj _ _ 2 gifts gift NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 votes vote NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 bribe bribe NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 elections election NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 13 paying pay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 gifting gift VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 16 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 votes vote NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 against against ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 25 amod _ _ 25 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | gerund | | gifts | | | | for votes | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent gift=Theme for vote=Asset | | 2 | **is a** | present | Giving | a bribe and the law | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **pay** | gerund | Giving *not said here* | | | real elections | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **gift** | gerund | Giving *not said here* | people | | | | for votes | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent people=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | Giving *not said here* | | | most countries | | against the law | tree rules | 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:037-school-councils-and-class-reps.lesson:14`. **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): no change. **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: [School councils and class reps, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/12/) - next →: [School councils and class reps, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/)