President and Prime Minister, White House and Downing Street, sentence 12
A US president can be elected only twice, for four years each time; this is a term limit; UK prime ministers have no fixed limit but must keep winning elections and keep their party's support.
Who acts: this, UK prime ministers, party · What happens: elect, be, have, fix, keep, win · To what, where: US president, term limit, fixed limit, elections, support
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 (this, UK prime ministers, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 president | det |
| 2 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 president | compound |
| 3 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 elected | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 elected | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 elected | aux:pass |
| 6 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 twice | advmod |
| 8 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 elected | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 years | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 11 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 elected | obl |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 years | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 limit | punct |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 limit | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 limit | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 limit | det |
| 19 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 limit | compound |
| 20 | limit | limit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 elected | parataxis |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 have | punct |
| 22 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 ministers | compound |
| 23 | prime | prime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 ministers | amod |
| 24 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 have | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 limit | parataxis |
| 26 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 limit | det |
| 27 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 limit | amod |
| 28 | limit | limit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 have | obj |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 keep | cc |
| 30 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 keep | aux |
| 31 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 have | conj |
| 32 | winning | win | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 keep | xcomp |
| 33 | elections | election | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 winning | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 keep | cc |
| 35 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 keep | conj |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 party | nmod:poss |
| 37 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 support | nmod:poss |
| 38 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 37 party | case |
| 39 | support | support | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 keep | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 elected | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | elect | can · passive | a US president | year | twice property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | present | this | a term limit | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | present | UK prime ministers | no fixed limit | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limit=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fix | participle | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | keep | must | UK prime ministers not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | win | gerund | UK prime ministers not said here | elections | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent election=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | keep | infinitive | UK prime ministers not said here | MPs's party's support | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent support=Theme | ||||
| 8 | support | MPs's party | nom support «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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: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): 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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