UK elections and the prime minister, as reported, sentence 18
News reports in 2025 said Reform UK, led by Nigel Farage, had been doing well in opinion polls, sometimes ahead of Labour and the Conservatives; polls are guesses, not results.
Who acts: News reports, Reform · What happens: say, lead, do, be · To what, where: Reform, opinion polls, guesses · 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 (News reports, Reform), 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 | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 2025 | case |
| 4 | 2025 | 2025 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 reports | nmod |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Reform | Reform | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 doing | nsubj |
| 7 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Reform | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 led | punct |
| 9 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Reform | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 Nigel | case |
| 11 | Nigel | Nigel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 led | obl:agent |
| 12 | Farage | Farage | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Nigel | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Reform | punct |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 doing | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 doing | aux |
| 16 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | ccomp |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 doing | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 polls | case |
| 19 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 polls | compound |
| 20 | polls | poll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 doing | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Labour | punct |
| 22 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 ahead | advmod |
| 23 | ahead | ahead | ADP | _ | 25 Labour | case |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Labour | case |
| 25 | Labour | Labour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 polls | parataxis |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Conservatives | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Conservatives | det |
| 28 | Conservatives | conservative | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 Labour | conj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 polls | punct |
| 30 | polls | poll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 polls | conj |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 guesses | cop |
| 32 | guesses | guess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 polls | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 results | punct |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 results | advmod |
| 35 | results | result | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 polls | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 in 2025 | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | lead | participle | Reform not said here | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect · progressive | Reform | opinion polls and polls and guesses and results | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | is a | present | Reform not said here | guesses | tree rules |
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:18.
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, 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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