President and Prime Minister, White House and Downing Street, sentence 10
Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) happens every Wednesday when Parliament is sitting; MPs, including the leader of the opposition, question the prime minister in public.
Who acts: Questions, Parliament, MPs · What happens: happen, sit, question · To what, where: prime minister, public
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 (Questions, Parliament, MPs), 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 | Prime | Prime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Minister | amod |
| 2 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Questions | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Minister | case |
| 4 | Questions | question | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 happens | nsubj |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 PMQs | punct |
| 6 | PMQs | PMQs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Questions | appos |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 PMQs | punct |
| 8 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 Wednesday | det |
| 10 | Wednesday | Wednesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 happens | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 sitting | advmod |
| 12 | Parliament | parliament | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 sitting | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sitting | aux |
| 14 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 happens | advcl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 happens | punct |
| 16 | MPs | mp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 question | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 MPs | punct |
| 18 | including | include | ADP | _ | 20 leader | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 leader | det |
| 20 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 MPs | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 opposition | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 opposition | det |
| 23 | opposition | opposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leader | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 question | punct |
| 25 | question | question | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 happens | parataxis |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 minister | det |
| 27 | prime | prime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 minister | amod |
| 28 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 question | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 public | case |
| 30 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 question | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 happens | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | Prime Minister's Questions | wednesday | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | present · progressive | Parliament | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | question speech: other | present | MPs include the leader of the opposition | the prime minister | public | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minister=Recipient |
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:10.
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, R8-pos-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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