UK elections and the prime minister, as reported, sentence 11
People vote for an MP, a Member of Parliament, for their local area; if a party picks a new leader between general elections, that person can become prime minister without a general election.
Who acts: People, party, person · What happens: vote, pick, become · To what, where: new leader, prime minister
This is a sentence of the lesson «UK elections and the prime minister, 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 (People, party, person), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 vote | nsubj |
| 2 | vote | vote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 MP | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 MP | det |
| 5 | MP | mp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 vote | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Member | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Member | det |
| 8 | Member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 MP | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Parliament | case |
| 10 | Parliament | parliament | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Member | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 area | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 area | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 area | nmod:poss |
| 14 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 area | amod |
| 15 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 vote | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 picks | punct |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 picks | mark |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 party | det |
| 19 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 picks | nsubj |
| 20 | picks | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 become | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 leader | det |
| 22 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 leader | amod |
| 23 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 picks | obj |
| 24 | between | between | ADP | _ | 26 elections | case |
| 25 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 elections | amod |
| 26 | elections | election | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 leader | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 become | punct |
| 28 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 person | det |
| 29 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 become | nsubj |
| 30 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 become | aux |
| 31 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 vote | parataxis |
| 32 | prime | prime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 minister | amod |
| 33 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 become | xcomp |
| 34 | without | without | ADP | _ | 37 election | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 election | det |
| 36 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 election | amod |
| 37 | election | election | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 become | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 vote | punct |
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 | vote | present | People | for a MP goal; for People's local area | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for mp=Goal | ||||
| 2 | pick a condition, not said to happen | present | a party | a new leader | between general elections | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leader=Patient | |||
| 3 | become | can | that person | prime minister | without a general election | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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:017-uk-elections-and-the-prime-minister-as-reported.lesson:11.
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, 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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