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description: In Australia voters number the candidates in order; if nobody has more than half, the last candidate is knocked out and those papers go to each voter's next choice, again and again until someone has more than half. Who acts: voters, nobody, papers, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: fair v
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# Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★, sentence 6

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In Australia voters number the candidates in order; if nobody has more than half, the last candidate is knocked out and those papers go to each voter's next choice, again and again until someone has more than half.

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**Who acts:** voters, nobody, papers, someone · **What happens:** number, have, knock out, go · **To what, where:** candidates, Australia, half, last candidate, next choice

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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 (voters, nobody, papers, someone), 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:6
# text = In Australia voters number the candidates in order; if nobody has more than half, the last candidate is knocked out and those papers go to each voter's next choice, again and again until someone has more than half.
# 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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	voters	voter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	number	number	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	candidates	candidate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	12	nsubj	_	_
12	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	15	advmod	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	12	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	candidate	candidate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	knocked	knock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	papers	paper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	voter	voter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	_
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	again	again	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	again	again	ADV	RB	_	34	conj	_	_
37	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
38	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	39	nsubj	_	_
39	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advcl
40	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	42	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:obj
41	than	than	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	39	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21: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 | **number** | present | voters | the candidates |  |  |  | in Australia *goal*; in order | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent candidate=Theme in australia=Goal |
| 2 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | nobody | half |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient |
| 3 | **knock out** | present · passive |  | the last candidate |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **go** | present | that papers |  |  | each voter's next choice | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to choice=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **have** | present | someone | half |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient |

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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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**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:6`.

**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 ×5, R6-punct-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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