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title: When people can see how you vote they may vote to please friends, wh… — School councils and class reps · tree and pragmatics
description: When people can see how you vote they may vote to please friends, which is why real elections use a secret ballot. Who acts: people, you. A sentence of the lesson «School councils and class reps» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# School councils and class reps, sentence 8

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When people can see how you vote they may vote to please friends, which is why real elections use a secret ballot.

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**Who acts:** people, you · **What happens:** see, vote, please, be · **To what, where:** friends · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (people, you), 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:8
# text = When people can see how you vote they may vote to please friends, which is why real elections use a secret ballot.
# 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	vote	vote	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	vote	vote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:parataxis
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	please	please	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
13	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
18	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	ballot	ballot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4: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 | **see** | can | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **vote** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **vote** | may | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **please** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | friends |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus friend=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | use *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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:8`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-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/).

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