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description: Winning with the most votes is not the same as winning more than half: more than half of 30 is at least 16, and more than half of 25 is at least 13. Who acts: Winning, half. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★» of the politics course of Mova's primary sch
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# Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★, sentence 5

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Winning with the most votes is not the same as winning more than half: more than half of 30 is at least 16, and more than half of 25 is at least 13.

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**Who acts:** Winning, half · **What happens:** win, not be, be · **To what, where:** half, 16, least, 13

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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 (Winning, 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:5
# text = Winning with the most votes is not the same as winning more than half: more than half of 30 is at least 16, and more than half of 25 is at least 13.
# 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 ×2
1	Winning	win	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	csubj	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup
5	votes	vote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	winning	win	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	14	advmod	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	11	obj	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	18	advmod	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	24	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	nmod	_	_
24	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	parataxis	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
27	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	_
28	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	fixed	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:case
29	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	35	nsubj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nmod	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	35	nmod	_	_
35	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	conj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **win** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with the most votes | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | Winning |  |  |  |  | same *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **win** | gerund | Winning *not said here* | half |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is a** | present | half of 30 | 16 |  | least |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | half of 25 | 13 |  | least |  |  | 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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**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 ×2. **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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