Parties: teams with ideas, sentence 1
In the UK the two biggest parties for a long time have been Labour and the Conservatives; in the USA they are the Democrats (whose cartoon symbol is a donkey) and the Republicans (an elephant).
Who acts: two biggest parties, Conservatives, cartoon symbol · What happens: be · To what, where: Labour, UK, Democrats, USA, donkey
This is a sentence of the lesson «Parties: teams with ideas» 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 (two biggest parties, Conservatives, cartoon symbol), 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 UK | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 UK | det |
| 3 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Labour | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 parties | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 parties | nummod |
| 6 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 parties | amod |
| 7 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Labour | nsubj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 parties | nmod |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 Labour | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 Labour | cop |
| 14 | Labour | Labour | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Conservatives | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Conservatives | det |
| 17 | Conservatives | conservative | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 Labour | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 USA | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 USA | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 USA | det |
| 21 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Democrats | obl |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 Democrats | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 Democrats | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Democrats | det |
| 25 | Democrats | Democrat | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 Labour | parataxis |
| 26 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 donkey | punct |
| 27 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 29 symbol | nmod:poss |
| 28 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 symbol | compound |
| 29 | symbol | symbol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 donkey | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 donkey | cop |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 donkey | det |
| 32 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Democrats | parataxis |
| 33 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 donkey | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 Republicans | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Republicans | det |
| 36 | Republicans | Republican | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 Democrats | conj |
| 37 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 39 elephant | punct |
| 38 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 elephant | det |
| 39 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 Republicans | appos |
| 40 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 39 elephant | punct |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 Labour | 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 · perfect | the two biggest parties for a long time | Labour and the Conservatives | the UK | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | Conservatives = conservative | the Democrats and the Republicans | the USA | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | present | a donkey's cartoon symbol | a donkey | tree rules |
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:004-parties-teams-with-ideas.lesson:1.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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