UK elections and the prime minister, as reported, sentence 9
In 2016 the UK held a referendum on leaving the European Union, a group of countries sharing trade rules; just over half of those who voted chose to leave, and the UK left in January 2020.
Who acts: UK, referendum, countries, half · What happens: hold, leave, share, vote, choose · To what, where: referendum, 2016, European Union, trade rules
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, referendum, countries, half), 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 | _ | 2 2016 | case |
| 2 | 2016 | 2016 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 held | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 UK | det |
| 4 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 held | nsubj |
| 5 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 referendum | det |
| 7 | referendum | referendum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | obj |
| 8 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 9 leaving | mark |
| 9 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 referendum | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Union | det |
| 11 | European | European | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Union | compound |
| 12 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 leaving | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 group | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 group | det |
| 15 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Union | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 countries | case |
| 17 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 group | nmod |
| 18 | sharing | share | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 countries | acl |
| 19 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rules | compound |
| 20 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sharing | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 half | punct |
| 22 | just | just | ADV | _ | 24 half | advmod |
| 23 | over | over | ADV | _ | 24 half | advmod |
| 24 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 29 chose | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 those | case |
| 26 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 24 half | nmod |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 voted | nsubj |
| 28 | voted | vote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 those | acl:relcl |
| 29 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 held | parataxis |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 leave | mark |
| 31 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 chose | xcomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 left | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 left | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 UK | det |
| 35 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 left | nsubj |
| 36 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 chose | conj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 January | case |
| 38 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 left | obl |
| 39 | 2020 | 2020 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 38 January | nmod:unmarked |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 held | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | the UK | a referendum | 2016 | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent referendum=Theme in 2016=Location | |||
| 2 | leave | gerund | a referendum not said here | the European Union | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent union=Theme | ||||
| 3 | share | gerund | countries not said here | trade rules | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | vote | past | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | choose | past | half of those | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | leave | to-infinitive | half of those not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | leave | past | the UK | january | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:9.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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