--- title: Tallymen are party helpers who watch the Irish count and keep their… — Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Austr… · tree and pragmatics description: Tallymen are party helpers who watch the Irish count and keep their own tally to guess the result early. Who acts: Tallymen, party helpers. A sentence of the lesson «Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its d --- [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/13/) [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/) / 13 # Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, sentence 13 Tallymen are party helpers who watch the Irish count and keep their own tally to guess the result early. **Who acts:** Tallymen, party helpers · **What happens:** be, watch, keep, guess, tally · **To what, where:** party helpers, Irish count, own tally, result 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 (Tallymen, party helpers), 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:13 # text = Tallymen are party helpers who watch the Irish count and keep their own tally to guess the result early. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Tallymen tallyman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 helpers helper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 watch watch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 Irish Irish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 count count NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 tally tally NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 guess guess VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 result result NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 16 advmod _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Tallymen | party helpers | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **watch** | present | party helpers | the Irish count | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent count=Theme | | 3 | **keep** | present | party helpers *not said here* | Tallymen's own tally | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tally=Theme | | 4 | **guess** | to-infinitive | party helpers *not said here* | the result | | | | early *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent result=Theme | | 5 | **tally** | | Tallymen *= tallyman* | | | | | | nom tally «act intransitive»: poss=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:13`. **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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