--- title: Ireland uses the single transferable vote: voters rank candidates, e… — Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Austr… · tree and pragmatics description: Ireland uses the single transferable vote: voters rank candidates, each area elects several people, and votes are counted round by round, which can take days. Who acts: Ireland, voters, area. A sentence of the lesson «Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand» of the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/9-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand/12/) [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/) / [Around the English-speaking world: Can…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/9-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand/) / 12 # Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, sentence 12 Ireland uses the single transferable vote: voters rank candidates, each area elects several people, and votes are counted round by round, which can take days. **Who acts:** Ireland, voters, area · **What happens:** use, rank, elect, count, take · **To what, where:** single transferable vote, candidates, several people, votes This is a sentence of the lesson «Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand» 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 (Ireland, voters, area), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:009-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand.lesson:12 # text = Ireland uses the single transferable vote: voters rank candidates, each area elects several people, and votes are counted round by round, which can take days. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 009-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand.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 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 transferable transferable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 vote vote NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 voters voter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 rank rank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 10 candidates candidate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 area area NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 elects elect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 votes vote NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 counted count VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 22 round round ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 round round ADV RB _ 21 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 acl:relcl _ _ 29 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | Ireland | the single transferable vote | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vote=Patient | | 2 | **rank** | present | voters | candidates | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent candidate=Theme | | 3 | **elect** | present | each area | several people | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | | 4 | **count** | present · passive | | votes | | | | round *property* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **take** | can | | | | | day | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:009-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand.lesson:12`. **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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