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title: In Australia adults must vote or risk a small fine, they number the… — Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Austr… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Australia adults must vote or risk a small fine, they number the candidates 1, 2, 3 in order of who they like, and many polling places sell a "democracy sausage" in bread outside. Who acts: adults, many polling places. A sentence of the lesson «Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia
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# Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, sentence 2

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In Australia adults must vote or risk a small fine, they number the candidates 1, 2, 3 in order of who they like, and many polling places sell a "democracy sausage" in bread outside.

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**Who acts:** adults, many polling places · **What happens:** vote, risk, number, like, sell · **To what, where:** Australia, small fine, candidates, order, democracy sausage, bread

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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 (adults, many polling places), 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:2
# text = In Australia adults must vote or risk a small fine, they number the candidates 1, 2, 3 in order of who they like, and many polling places sell a "democracy sausage" in bread outside.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	vote	vote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	risk	risk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	fine	fine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:obj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	number	number	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	candidates	candidate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	appos	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
18	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	flat	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:appos
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nmod	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	polling	polling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
31	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	sell	sell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	_
35	democracy	democracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	sausage	sausage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
40	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vote** | must | adults |  |  | Australia |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **risk** | infinitive | adults *not said here* | a small fine |  |  |  |  | vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fine=Pivot |
| 3 | **number** | present | adults *= adult* | the candidates |  |  |  | in order *goal* | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent candidate=Theme in order=Goal |
| 4 | **like** | present | adults *= adult* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **sell** | present | many polling places | a democracy sausage |  | bread |  | outside *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sausage=Theme |

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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.

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**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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