--- title: In Australia, voting in national elections is compulsory for adult c… — Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Austr… · tree and pragmatics description: In Australia, voting in national elections is compulsory for adult citizens, so almost everyone takes part; in the USA, voting is a free choice. Who acts: everyone, voting. A sentence of the lesson «Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand» of the politics course of --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, sentence 7 In Australia, voting in national elections is compulsory for adult citizens, so almost everyone takes part; in the USA, voting is a free choice. **Who acts:** everyone, voting · **What happens:** vote, be, take · **To what, where:** national elections, Australia, part, free choice, USA 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 (everyone, voting), 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:7 # text = In Australia, voting in national elections is compulsory for adult citizens, so almost everyone takes part; in the USA, voting is a free choice. # 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 ×3 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 voting vote VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:csubj 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 national national ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 elections election NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 compulsory compulsory ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 adult adult ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 citizens citizen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 almost almost ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 17 nsubj _ _ 17 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advcl 18 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 voting voting NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 choice choice NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **vote** | gerund | | | | national elections | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | Australia | | for adult citizens; compulsory *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **take** | present | everyone | part | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | voting | a free choice | | the USA | | | tree rules | 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:7`. **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 ×3. **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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