UK elections and the prime minister, as reported, sentence 21
News reports in 2025 said the UK government planned to lower the voting age to 16 for general elections; 16- and 17-year-olds can already vote in some elections in Scotland and Wales, and the change needs a new law.
Who acts: News reports, UK government, 16 year olds, change · What happens: say, plan, lower, vote, need · To what, where: voting age, 16, elections, new law · 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, UK government, 16 year olds, change), 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 government | det |
| 7 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 government | compound |
| 8 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 planned | nsubj |
| 9 | planned | plan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 lower | mark |
| 11 | lower | lower | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 planned | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 age | det |
| 13 | voting | voting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 age | compound |
| 14 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lower | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 16 | case |
| 16 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 lower | obl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 elections | case |
| 18 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 elections | amod |
| 19 | elections | election | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lower | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 vote | punct |
| 21 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 olds | flat |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 vote | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 vote | cc |
| 24 | 17 | 17 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 year | nummod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 17 | punct |
| 26 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 olds | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 year | punct |
| 28 | olds | old | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 vote | nsubj |
| 29 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 vote | aux |
| 30 | already | already | ADV | _ | 31 vote | advmod |
| 31 | vote | vote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 elections | case |
| 33 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 elections | det |
| 34 | elections | election | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 vote | obl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 Scotland | case |
| 36 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 elections | nmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 Wales | cc |
| 38 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Scotland | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 needs | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 needs | cc |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 change | det |
| 42 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 needs | nsubj |
| 43 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 law | det |
| 45 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 law | amod |
| 46 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 needs | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | 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 | say speech: assert | past | News reports in 2025 | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | plan | past | the UK government | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | lower not said to happen | to-infinitive | the UK government not said here | the voting age | 16 | for general elections | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent age=Theme to 16=Destination | ||
| 4 | vote | can | 16 year olds | some elections in Scotland and Wales | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | need | present | the change | a new law | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot law=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:21.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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