--- title: In Australia, voters number the candidates in order of preference; i… — Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Austr… · tree and pragmatics description: In Australia, voters number the candidates in order of preference; if nobody has more than half, the last candidate is knocked out and their votes go to next choices, until someone has more than half. Who acts: voters, nobody, votes, someone. 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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 (voters, nobody, votes, someone), 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:9 # text = In Australia, voters number the candidates in order of preference; if nobody has more than half, the last candidate is knocked out and their votes go to next choices, until someone has more than half. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 voters voter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 number number VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 candidates candidate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 preference preference NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 13 if if SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 15 nsubj _ _ 15 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 16 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 18 advmod _ _ 17 than than ADP IN _ 16 fixed _ _ 18 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 15 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 candidate candidate NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 knocked knock VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 25 out out ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 votes vote NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 choices choice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 until until SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 36 nsubj _ _ 36 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 37 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 39 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:obj 38 than than ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 36 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:obl 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **number** | present | voters | the candidates | | | | in Australia *goal*; in order of preference | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent candidate=Theme in australia=Goal | | 2 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | nobody | half | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient | | 3 | **knock out** | present · passive | | the last candidate | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **go** | present | candidates's votes | | | next choices | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to choice=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **have** | present | someone | half | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient | | 6 | **order** | | | preference | | | | | nom order «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 7 | **vote** | | candidates *= candidate* | | | | | | nom vote «act transitive»: 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:9`. **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, R6-punct-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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