President and Prime Minister, White House and Downing Street, sentence 0
The USA has a president, chosen by voters in a separate election, who is both head of the country and head of the government; the UK has a prime minister, the leader of the party that wins most seats in Parliament, while the King is the head of state.
Who acts: USA, separate election, UK, party, King · What happens: have, choose, be, win · To what, where: president, separate election, head, prime minister, most seats, Parliament
This is a sentence of the lesson «President and Prime Minister, White House and Downing Street» 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 (USA, separate election, UK, party), 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 | 2 USA | det |
| 2 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 president | det |
| 5 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 chosen | punct |
| 7 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 president | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 voters | case |
| 9 | voters | voter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 chosen | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 election | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 election | det |
| 12 | separate | separate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 election | amod |
| 13 | election | election | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chosen | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 head | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 head | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 head | cop |
| 17 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 head | det |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 election | appos |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 country | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 country | det |
| 21 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 head | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 head | cc |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 country | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 government | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 government | det |
| 26 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 head | nmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 has | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 UK | det |
| 29 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 has | nsubj |
| 30 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | parataxis |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 minister | det |
| 32 | prime | prime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 minister | amod |
| 33 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 has | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 leader | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 leader | det |
| 36 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 minister | appos |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 party | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 party | det |
| 39 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 leader | nmod |
| 40 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 wins | nsubj |
| 41 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 party | acl:relcl |
| 42 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 43 seats | amod |
| 43 | seats | seat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 wins | obj |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 Parliament | case |
| 45 | Parliament | parliament | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 seats | nmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 head | punct |
| 47 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 52 head | mark |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 King | det |
| 49 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 head | nsubj |
| 50 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 head | cop |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 head | det |
| 52 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 has | advcl |
| 53 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 state | case |
| 54 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 head | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | 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 | the USA | a president | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent president=Patient | ||||
| 2 | choose | participle | a president not said here | a separate election | by voters | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | is a | present | a separate election | both head | of the country and head of the government | tree rules | |||
| 4 | have | present | the UK | a prime minister | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minister=Patient | ||||
| 5 | win | present | the party | most seats | Parliament | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | is a | present | the King | the head | of state | 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:005-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street.lesson:0.
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 ×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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