UK elections and the prime minister, as reported, sentence 20
The King is head of state in a constitutional monarchy: he does not run the country or take sides, and at the King's Speech he reads out the government's plans.
Who acts: King, government · What happens: be, not run, take, read out, speak, plan · To what, where: head, constitutional monarchy, country, sides, plans, Speech · 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 (King, government), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 head | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 head | cop |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 state | case |
| 6 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 head | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 monarchy | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 monarchy | det |
| 9 | constitutional | constitutional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 monarchy | amod |
| 10 | monarchy | monarchy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 head | nmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 run | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 run | nsubj |
| 13 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 run | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 run | advmod |
| 15 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 head | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 country | det |
| 17 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 run | obj |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 take | cc |
| 19 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 run | conj |
| 20 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 take | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 reads | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 reads | cc |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 Speech | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 King | det |
| 25 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Speech | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 King | case |
| 27 | Speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 reads | obl |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 reads | nsubj |
| 29 | reads | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 run | conj |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 reads | compound:prt |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 government | det |
| 32 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 plans | nmod:poss |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 government | case |
| 34 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 reads | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 head | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the King | head | a constitutional monarchy | of state | tree rules | ||
| 2 | not run | present · do-support | King | the country | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme country=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | King not said here | sides | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Theme | ||||
| 4 | read out | present | King | the government's plans | the King's Speech | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent plan=Theme at speech=Value | |||
| 5 | speak | the King | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | plan | the government | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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:20.
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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