UK elections and the prime minister, as reported, sentence 19
At Prime Minister's Questions, held every week while Parliament sits, MPs question the prime minister, the opposition challenges the government, and the Speaker keeps order.
Who acts: Parliament, MPs, opposition, Speaker · What happens: hold, sit, question, challenge, keep · To what, where: Questions, prime minister, government, order
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 (Parliament, MPs, opposition, Speaker), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 Questions | case |
| 2 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 3 Minister | compound |
| 3 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Questions | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Minister | case |
| 5 | Questions | question | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 question | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Questions | punct |
| 7 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Questions | acl |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 week | det |
| 9 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 held | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 sits | mark |
| 11 | Parliament | parliament | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 sits | nsubj |
| 12 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 held | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 question | punct |
| 14 | MPs | mp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 question | nsubj |
| 15 | question | question | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 minister | det |
| 17 | prime | prime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 minister | amod |
| 18 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 question | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 challenges | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 opposition | det |
| 21 | opposition | opposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 challenges | nsubj |
| 22 | challenges | challenge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 question | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 government | det |
| 24 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 challenges | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 keeps | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 keeps | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Speaker | det |
| 28 | Speaker | speaker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 keeps | nsubj |
| 29 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 question | conj |
| 30 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 keeps | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 question | 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 | hold | participle | Prime Minister's Questions not said here | week | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | present | Parliament | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | question speech: other | present | MPs | the prime minister | Prime Minister's Questions | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minister=Recipient | |||
| 4 | challenge | present | the opposition | the government | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | keep | present | the Speaker | order | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=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:19.
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 ×3. 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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