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title: Mayors, governors and premiers are chosen in elections or by elected… — Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decid… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mayors, governors and premiers are chosen in elections or by elected bodies, but the King is not elected; he stays neutral and does not vote. Who acts: King. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dep
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# Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★, sentence 16

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Mayors, governors and premiers are chosen in elections or by elected bodies, but the King is not elected; he stays neutral and does not vote.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** choose, elect, not elect, stay, not vote · **To what, where:** Mayors, elections, King

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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 (King), 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:16
# text = Mayors, governors and premiers are chosen in elections or by elected bodies, but the King is not elected; he stays neutral and does not vote.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Mayors	mayor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	governors	governor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	premiers	premier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advcl
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
24	neutral	neutral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	vote	vote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | present · passive |  | Mayors and governors and premiers |  | elections or elected bodies |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **elect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **elect** | present · passive |  | the King |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **stay** | present | King |  |  |  |  | neutral *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **vote** | present · do-support | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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): R7-rel-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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