--- title: In a democracy the people choose a smaller group to decide for them,… — Laws, voting and how a country is run · tree and pragmatics description: In a democracy the people choose a smaller group to decide for them, by voting in an election. Who acts: people. 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/1/) [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/) / 1 # Laws, voting and how a country is run, sentence 1 In a democracy the people choose a smaller group to decide for them, by voting in an election. **Who acts:** people · **What happens:** choose, decide, vote · **To what, where:** smaller group, democracy, election 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 (people), 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:1 # text = In a democracy the people choose a smaller group to decide for them, by voting in an election. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 democracy democracy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 choose choose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 amod _ _ 9 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 decide decide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 acl _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 by by SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 16 voting vote VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 election election NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:nmod 20 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **choose** | present | the people | a smaller group | | a democracy | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Theme | | 2 | **decide** | to-infinitive | the people *not said here* | a smaller group *not said here* | | | | for people | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **vote** | gerund | the people *not said here* | | | a election | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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:world:096-laws-voting-government.lesson:1`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Laws, voting and how a country is run, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/96-laws-voting-government/0/) - next →: [Laws, voting and how a country is run, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/96-laws-voting-government/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/96-laws-voting-government/)