--- title: In a show of hands people can see each other's votes, so some vote t… — Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decid… · tree and pragmatics description: In a show of hands people can see each other's votes, so some vote to please friends; a secret ballot lets everyone vote as they really think. Who acts: people, secret ballot, everyone, other. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★» of the politics course of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/41-olympiad-fair-votes-close-counts-and-who-decides/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/) / [Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/41-olympiad-fair-votes-close-counts-and-who-decides/) / 15 # Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★, sentence 15 In a show of hands people can see each other's votes, so some vote to please friends; a secret ballot lets everyone vote as they really think. **Who acts:** people, secret ballot, everyone, other · **What happens:** see, please, let, vote, think, show · **To what, where:** votes, show, friends, hands This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★» 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, secret ballot, everyone, other), 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:15 # text = In a show of hands people can see each other's votes, so some vote to please friends; a secret ballot lets everyone vote as they really think. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 show show NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 other other NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 votes vote NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 16 det _ _ 16 vote vote NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:mark 18 please please VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 19 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 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 24 nsubj _ _ 24 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 25 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 26 nsubj _ _ 26 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 as as SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 really really ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | can | people | each other's votes | | a show of hands | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vote=Stimulus | | 2 | **please** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | friends | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus friend=Experiencer | | 3 | **let** | present | a secret ballot | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **vote** | infinitive | everyone | | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | present | people | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **show** | | | hands | | | | | nom show «act transitive»: of=patient | | 7 | **vote** | | each other | | | | | | nom vote «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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:15`. **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, R7-rel-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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