--- title: A country has millions of people, so they cannot all meet in one roo… — Laws, voting and how a country is run · tree and pragmatics description: A country has millions of people, so they cannot all meet in one room to decide things. Who acts: country, millions. A sentence of the lesson «Laws, voting and how a country is run» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/96-laws-voting-government/0/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Laws, voting and how a country is run](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/96-laws-voting-government/) / 0 # Laws, voting and how a country is run, sentence 0 A country has millions of people, so they cannot all meet in one room to decide things. **Who acts:** country, millions · **What happens:** have, not meet, decide · **To what, where:** millions, one room, things This is a sentence of the lesson «Laws, voting and how a country is run» of the world 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 (country, millions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:096-laws-voting-government.lesson:0 # text = A country has millions of people, so they cannot all meet in one room to decide things. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 096-laws-voting-government.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 12 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 decide decide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:acl 19 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a country | millions of people | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent million=Patient | | 2 | **not** **meet** | can | millions *= million* | | | one room | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **decide** | to-infinitive | millions *= million* *not said here* | things | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | 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:096-laws-voting-government.lesson:0`. **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 ×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: [Money, shops and work in a town, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/95-money-shops-work-town/17/) - next →: [Laws, voting and how a country is run, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/96-laws-voting-government/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/96-laws-voting-government/)