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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 (Most votes, 12 votes, 18 people, half), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:041-olympiad-fair-votes-close-counts-and-who-decides.lesson:1 # text = "Most votes" and "more than half" are not the same: with 30 voters, 12 votes can win a race of three, yet 18 people chose someone else, and more than half would mean at least 16. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 041-olympiad-fair-votes-close-counts-and-who-decides.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 votes vote NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 7 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 9 advmod _ _ 8 than than ADP IN _ 7 fixed _ _ 9 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 3 conj _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 voters voter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 votes vote NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 win win VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 parataxis _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 race race NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 18 18 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 chose choose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 33 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 32 obj _ _ 34 else else ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 37 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 39 advmod _ _ 38 than than SCONJ IN _ 37 fixed _ _ 39 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 41 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=41:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP:Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:conj 42 at at ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 44 nmod _ _ 44 16 16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 41 obj _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | Most votes and half | | | | | same *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **win** | can | 12 votes | a race of three | | | | with 30 voters | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality | | 3 | **choose** | past | 18 people | someone | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme | | 4 | **mean** | would | half | 16 | | least | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 16=Topic | 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:041-olympiad-fair-votes-close-counts-and-who-decides.lesson:1`. **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, R8-pos-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. 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