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A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★» of the politics course of Mova's primar --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/41-olympiad-fair-votes-close-counts-and-who-decides/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/) / [Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/41-olympiad-fair-votes-close-counts-and-who-decides/) / 8 # Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★, sentence 8 While a count is going on, a candidate is only sure to win when the other cannot catch up even if every vote still to count goes to them. **Who acts:** count, candidate, other, vote · **What happens:** go on, be, win, not catch up, count, go · **To what, where:** candidates 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 (count, candidate, other, vote), 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:8 # text = While a count is going on, a candidate is only sure to win when the other cannot catch up even if every vote still to count goes to them. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 While while SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 count count NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 6 on on ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 candidate candidate NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 only only ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 win win VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 nsubj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:aux|HaikuPos=VERB:MD:VerbForm=Fin 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 even even ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 23 if if SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 24 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 25 vote vote NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 26 still still ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 count count VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 acl _ _ 29 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 12 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 | **go on** | present · progressive | a count | | | | | | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | a candidate | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **win** | to-infinitive | a candidate *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **catch up** | can | the other | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **count** | to-infinitive | every vote *not said here* | | | | still | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | every vote | | candidates *= candidate* | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial\_Location | 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:8`. **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): 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. 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