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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (candidate, this, people, group), 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:7 # text = When votes are won group by group, as in the US Electoral College, a candidate can win the most groups with fewer votes in total; this has happened in some US presidential elections, and people disagree whether it is fair. # 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 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 votes vote NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 won win VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 advcl _ _ 5 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 13 Electoral Electoral PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 College College PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 candidate candidate NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 win win VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 22 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 22 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 amod _ _ 25 votes vote NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 total total ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 nmod _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 nsubj _ _ 30 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 happened happen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 parataxis _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 36 det _ _ 34 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 35 presidential presidential ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 elections election NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 40 disagree disagree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 41 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 43 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 44 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 ccomp _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **win** | present · passive | | votes | | | | group by group *obl:unmarked* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 2 | **win** | can | a candidate | the most groups | | | | as the US Electoral College; with fewer votes in total | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Eventuality | | 3 | **happen** | present · perfect | this | | | some US presidential elections | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in election=Location | | 4 | **disagree** | present | people | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | group | | | | | fair *property* | tree rules | 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:7`. **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. **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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