US elections and the president, as reported, sentence 17
News reports said Donald Trump won the 2024 election against Kamala Harris, winning the main swing states and the most votes nationwide; his second term began in January 2025.
Who acts: News reports, Donald, second term · What happens: say, win, begin, term · To what, where: 2024 election, main swing states · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «US elections and the president, as reported» of the politics 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 (News reports, Donald, second term), 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 | News | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reports | compound |
| 2 | reports | report | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Donald | Donald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 won | nsubj |
| 5 | Trump | Trump | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Donald | flat |
| 6 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 election | det |
| 8 | 2024 | 2024 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 election | nummod |
| 9 | election | election | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 won | obj |
| 10 | against | against | ADP | _ | 11 Kamala | case |
| 11 | Kamala | Kamala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 won | obl |
| 12 | Harris | Harris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Kamala | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 winning | punct |
| 14 | winning | win | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 won | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 states | det |
| 16 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 states | amod |
| 17 | swing | swing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 states | compound |
| 18 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 winning | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 votes | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 votes | det |
| 21 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 votes | amod |
| 22 | votes | vote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 states | conj |
| 23 | nationwide | nationwide | ADV | _ | 22 votes | advmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 began | punct |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 term | nmod:poss |
| 26 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 27 term | amod |
| 27 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 began | nsubj |
| 28 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | parataxis |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 January | case |
| 30 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 began | obl |
| 31 | 2025 | 2025 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 January | nmod:unmarked |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | News reports | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | win | past | Donald | the 2024 election | against Kamala | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent election=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | win | gerund | Donald not said here | the main swing states and the most votes | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | Donald's second term | january | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | term | Donald | nom term «communication 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, 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:016-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported.lesson:17.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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