UK elections and the prime minister, as reported, sentence 12
It was reported that Boris Johnson stepped down in 2022 after many of his own ministers quit; Liz Truss followed, then Rishi Sunak, all from the Conservative Party, also called the Tories.
Who acts: Boris, many, Liz · What happens: report, step down, quit, follow, call · To what, where: person, 2022, Tories · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Boris, many, Liz), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reported | aux:pass |
| 3 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 stepped | mark |
| 5 | Boris | Boris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 stepped | nsubj |
| 6 | Johnson | Johnson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Boris | flat |
| 7 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reported | ccomp |
| 8 | down | down | PART | _ | 7 stepped | compound:prt |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 2022 | case |
| 10 | 2022 | 2022 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 stepped | obl |
| 11 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 17 quit | mark |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 quit | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 ministers | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 ministers | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ministers | amod |
| 16 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 many | nmod |
| 17 | quit | quit | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stepped | advcl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 followed | punct |
| 19 | Liz | Liz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 followed | nsubj |
| 20 | Truss | Truss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Liz | flat |
| 21 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reported | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Rishi | punct |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 Rishi | advmod |
| 24 | Rishi | Rishi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 reported | obl |
| 25 | Sunak | Sunak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Rishi | flat |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Party | punct |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 Party | det |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 Party | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Party | det |
| 30 | Conservative | Conservative | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Party | compound |
| 31 | Party | Party | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Rishi | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 called | punct |
| 33 | also | also | ADV | _ | 34 called | advmod |
| 34 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reported | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Tories | det |
| 36 | Tories | tory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 called | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reported | 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 | report | past · passive | person | Rishi and all Conservative Party obl | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | step down | past | Boris | 2022 | vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | quit | past | many of Boris's own ministers | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | follow | past | Liz | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | call | past | the Tories | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tory=Recipient |
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:12.
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 ×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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