UK elections and the prime minister, as reported, sentence 14

Prime ministers can choose when to call a general election, as long as it is within five years of the last one; it was reported that Rishi Sunak announced the July 2024 election outside 10 Downing Street in pouring rain.

Who acts: Prime ministers, minister, Rishi · What happens: choose, call, be, report, announce · To what, where: general election, minister, July election · 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 (Prime ministers, minister, Rishi), 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	Prime	prime	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ministers	amod
2	ministers	minister	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 choose	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 choose	aux
4	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 call	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 call	mark
7	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 choose	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 election	det
9	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 election	amod
10	election	election	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 call	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 long	punct
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 long	advmod
13	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 election	advmod
14	as	as	ADP	_	19 years	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 years	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 years	cop
17	within	within	ADP	_	19 years	case
18	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 years	nummod
19	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 long	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 one	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 one	det
22	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 one	amod
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 years	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 reported	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 reported	nsubj:pass
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 reported	aux:pass
27	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 long	advcl
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 announced	mark
29	Rishi	Rishi	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 announced	nsubj
30	Sunak	Sunak	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Rishi	flat
31	announced	announce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 reported	ccomp
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 election	det
33	July	July	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 election	compound
34	2024	2024	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	33 July	flat
35	election	election	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 announced	obj
36	outside	outside	ADP	_	39 Street	case
37	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	39 Street	nummod
38	Downing	down	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Street	compound
39	Street	Street	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 announced	obl
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 rain	case
41	pouring	pouring	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 rain	compound
42	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 Downing	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 choose	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	choose	can	Prime ministers				tree rules
2	call	to-infinitive	Prime ministers not said here	a general election			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent election=Recipient
3	is	present	minister		as five years	of the last one	tree rules
4	report	past · passive		minister			vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
5	announce speech: other	past	Rishi	the July election		outside 10 Downing Street	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent election=Theme

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:14.

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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