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title: The rule can change the winner: count once, or knock out the last on… — Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decid… · tree and pragmatics
description: The rule can change the winner: count once, or knock out the last one and pass their papers to each voter's next choice, like numbering boxes in Australia, or win group by group like the US states, and the same papers can crown a different winner. Who acts: rule, same papers. A sentence of the lesso
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# Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★, sentence 2

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The rule can change the winner: count once, or knock out the last one and pass their papers to each voter's next choice, like numbering boxes in Australia, or win group by group like the US states, and the same papers can crown a different winner.

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**Who acts:** rule, same papers · **What happens:** change, count, knock out, pass, number, win · **To what, where:** winner, last one, papers, next choice, boxes, Australia

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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 (rule, same papers), 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:2
# text = The rule can change the winner: count once, or knock out the last one and pass their papers to each voter's next choice, like numbering boxes in Australia, or win group by group like the US states, and the same papers can crown a different winner.
# 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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	winner	winner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	knock	knock	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	pass	pass	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	papers	paper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	voter	voter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	_
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	numbering	number	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
30	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	win	win	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
36	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
37	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	like	like	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:det
41	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	papers	paper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nsubj	_	_
48	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	crown	crown	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	winner	winner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | can | the rule | the winner |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent winner=Patient |
| 2 | **count** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **knock out** | infinitive |  | the last one |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 4 | **pass** | infinitive |  | votes's papers | each voter's next choice |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent paper=Theme to choice=Recipient |
| 5 | **number** | gerund |  | boxes |  |  |  | in Australia *goal* | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent box=Theme in australia=Goal |
| 6 | **win** | infinitive |  | group |  |  |  | by group; like the US states | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Eventuality |
| 7 | **crown** | can | the same papers | a different winner |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent winner=Theme |

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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): 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.

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