--- title: A vote is only fair if lots of people with no reason to pick one sid… — Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats" · tree and pragmatics description: A vote is only fair if lots of people with no reason to pick one side take part; the owner's family is not a fair jury. Who acts: vote, lots, family. 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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 (vote, lots, family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats.lesson:14 # text = A vote is only fair if lots of people with no reason to pick one side take part; the owner's family is not a fair jury. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 vote vote NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 only only ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 if if SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 7 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 12 det _ _ 12 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 18 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 jury jury NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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** | present | a vote | | | | | fair *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **pick** | to-infinitive | lots of people with no reason *not said here* | one side | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Patient | | 3 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | lots of people with no reason | part | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | | 4 | **not** **is a** | present | the owner's family | a fair jury | | | | | 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:world:176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats", 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats/13/) - next →: [Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats", 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats/)