--- title: Fair voting needs a secret ballot, slips of paper in a box, so nobod… — School councils and class reps · tree and pragmatics description: Fair voting needs a secret ballot, slips of paper in a box, so nobody votes just to please a best friend, and no lollies for votes, because that is a bribe. Who acts: Fair voting, nobody, that, paper. 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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 (Fair voting, nobody, that, paper), 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:2 # text = Fair voting needs a secret ballot, slips of paper in a box, so nobody votes just to please a best friend, and no lollies for votes, because that is a bribe. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 voting voting NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 secret secret ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 ballot ballot NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 slips slip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 17 nsubj _ _ 17 votes vote VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 18 just just ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 please please VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 23 amod _ _ 23 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 27 det _ _ 27 lollies lolly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 votes vote NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 because because SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 35 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 bribe bribe NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 advcl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | Fair voting | a secret ballot and slips of paper in a box and no lollies for votes | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot ballot=Theme | | 2 | **vote** | present | nobody | | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **please** | to-infinitive | nobody *not said here* | a best friend | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus friend=Experiencer | | 4 | **is a** | present | that | a bribe | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **slip** | | paper | | | a box | | | nom slip «act intransitive»: of=agent in=place | 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:2`. **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 ×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: [School councils and class reps, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/1/) - next →: [School councils and class reps, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/)