--- title: In 1999 Australians voted in a referendum on becoming a republic, a… — The King, the courts and the rules above the rules · tree and pragmatics description: In 1999 Australians voted in a referendum on becoming a republic, a country without a king or queen; most voted no, partly because they could not agree how a president should be chosen. Who acts: Australians, referendum, most. 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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 (Australians, referendum, most), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:007-the-king-the-courts-and-the-rules-above-the-rules.lesson:16 # text = In 1999 Australians voted in a referendum on becoming a republic, a country without a king or queen; most voted no, partly because they could not agree how a president should be chosen. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 007-the-king-the-courts-and-the-rules-above-the-rules.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, R7-rel-agree ×6 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1999 1999 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obl _ _ 3 Australians Australian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 voted vote VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 referendum referendum NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 on on SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 9 becoming become VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nmod 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 republic republic NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obj 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 15 without without ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 21 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 22 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 22 voted vote VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 23 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 22 discourse _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 partly partly ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advmod 26 because because SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 agree agree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 31 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 36 advmod _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 president president NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 chosen choose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 ccomp _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **vote** | past | Australians | | | 1999 | | in a referendum | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **become** | gerund | a referendum *not said here* | a republic | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **vote** | past | most | | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **agree** *speech: agree* | could | Australians *= australian* | | | | | partly *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **choose** | should · passive | | a president | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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:007-the-king-the-courts-and-the-rules-above-the-rules.lesson:16`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×6. **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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