--- title: New Zealand uses MMP (mixed-member proportional): each voter has an… — Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Austr… · tree and pragmatics description: New Zealand uses MMP (mixed-member proportional): each voter has an electorate vote for a local MP and a party vote, which decides each party's share of seats. Who acts: New Zealand, voter, party vote, party. 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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 (New Zealand, voter, party vote, party), 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:14 # text = New Zealand uses MMP (mixed-member proportional): each voter has an electorate vote for a local MP and a party vote, which decides each party's share of seats. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 New New PROPN NNP _ 2 compound _ _ 2 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 MMP MMP PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 6 mixed mix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:amod 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 member member NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 proportional proportional ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 appos _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 voter voter NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 15 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 electorate electorate NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 vote vote NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 local local ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 MP mp NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 vote vote NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 decides decide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:acl:relcl 29 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 30 det _ _ 30 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 's 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 share share NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 seats seat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | New Zealand | MMP | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mmp=Patient | | 2 | **mix** | participle | | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **have** | present | each voter | a electorate vote | | | | for a local MP and a party vote | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vote=Patient | | 4 | **decide** | present | a party vote | each party's share of seats | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent share=Topic | | 5 | **share** | | each party | seats | | | | | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=patient | 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:14`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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