UK elections and the prime minister, as reported, sentence 5
In recent years the UK has had a lot of news: the vote to leave the European Union, three prime ministers in a few months, a landslide election in 2024 and new parties rising in the polls.
Who acts: UK, new parties · What happens: have, leave, rise · To what, where: lot, European Union, polls
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 (UK, new parties), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 years | case |
| 2 | recent | recent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 years | amod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 had | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 UK | det |
| 5 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | aux |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lot | det |
| 9 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 news | case |
| 11 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lot | nmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 vote | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 vote | det |
| 14 | vote | vote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lot | appos |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 leave | mark |
| 16 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 vote | acl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Union | det |
| 18 | European | European | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Union | compound |
| 19 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 leave | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ministers | punct |
| 21 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 ministers | nummod |
| 22 | prime | prime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 ministers | amod |
| 23 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 vote | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 months | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 months | det |
| 26 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 months | amod |
| 27 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 ministers | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 election | punct |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 election | det |
| 30 | landslide | landslide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 election | compound |
| 31 | election | election | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 vote | conj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 2024 | case |
| 33 | 2024 | 2024 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 election | nmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 parties | cc |
| 35 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 parties | amod |
| 36 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 election | conj |
| 37 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 parties | acl |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 polls | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 polls | det |
| 40 | polls | poll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 rising | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · perfect | the UK | a lot of news | year | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient | |||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | the UK not said here | the European Union | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent union=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rise | gerund | new parties not said here | the polls | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in poll=Location |
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:5.
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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