Parties: teams with ideas, sentence 12
The Liberal Democrats are a UK party often called "the third party"; in the UK system, smaller parties can win many votes but fewer seats.
Who acts: Liberal Democrats, UK party, smaller parties · What happens: be, call, win · To what, where: UK party, third party, many votes, UK system · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Liberal Democrats, UK party, smaller 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Democrats | det |
| 2 | Liberal | Liberal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Democrats | compound |
| 3 | Democrats | Democrat | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 party | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 party | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 party | det |
| 6 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 party | compound |
| 7 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | often | often | ADV | _ | 9 called | advmod |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 party | acl |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 party | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 party | det |
| 12 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 party | amod |
| 13 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 called | xcomp |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 party | punct |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 system | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 system | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 system | det |
| 18 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 system | compound |
| 19 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 win | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 win | punct |
| 21 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 parties | amod |
| 22 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 win | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 win | aux |
| 24 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 party | parataxis |
| 25 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 votes | amod |
| 26 | votes | vote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 win | obj |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 seats | cc |
| 28 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 seats | amod |
| 29 | seats | seat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 votes | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 party | 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 Liberal Democrats | a UK party | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | a UK party not said here | the third party | often property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | win | can | smaller parties | many votes but fewer seats | the UK system | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vote=Eventuality |
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:12.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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