Votes, parties and the people in charge, sentence 15
Parliament is where elected representatives, called MPs in the UK, debate and vote on new laws.
Who acts: Parliament, elected representatives · What happens: be, elect, call, debate, vote · To what, where: MPs, new laws · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Votes, parties and the people in charge» of the adult life 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 (Parliament, elected representatives), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parliament | parliament | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 where | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 where | cop |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 4 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 representatives | amod |
| 5 | representatives | representative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 debate | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | punct |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 representatives | acl |
| 8 | MPs | mp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 called | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 UK | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 UK | det |
| 11 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 MPs | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 debate | punct |
| 13 | debate | debate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 where | acl:relcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 vote | cc |
| 15 | vote | vote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 debate | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 laws | case |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 laws | amod |
| 18 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 vote | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 where | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Parliament | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | elect | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | call | participle | elected representatives not said here | MPs in the UK | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | debate | present | elected representatives | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | vote | present | elected representatives not said here | new laws | 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, 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:adult-life:031-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge.lesson:15.
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): R8-pos-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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