President and Prime Minister, White House and Downing Street, sentence 13
In the UK, if a prime minister resigns, their party can choose a new leader who becomes prime minister without a general election; this happened several times between 2016 and 2022.
Who acts: prime minister, party, new leader, this · What happens: resign, choose, become, happen · To what, where: new leader, UK, prime minister, 2016
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 (prime minister, party, new leader, this), 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 choose | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 UK | punct |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 resigns | mark |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 minister | det |
| 7 | prime | prime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 minister | amod |
| 8 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 resigns | nsubj |
| 9 | resigns | resign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 choose | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 resigns | punct |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 party | nmod:poss |
| 12 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 choose | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 choose | aux |
| 14 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 leader | det |
| 16 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 leader | amod |
| 17 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 choose | obj |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 becomes | nsubj |
| 19 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 leader | acl:relcl |
| 20 | prime | prime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 minister | amod |
| 21 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 becomes | xcomp |
| 22 | without | without | ADP | _ | 25 election | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 election | det |
| 24 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 election | amod |
| 25 | election | election | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 becomes | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 happened | punct |
| 27 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 happened | nsubj |
| 28 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 choose | parataxis |
| 29 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 times | amod |
| 30 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | between | between | ADP | _ | 32 2016 | case |
| 32 | 2016 | 2016 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 happened | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 2022 | cc |
| 34 | 2022 | 2022 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 2016 | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 choose | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resign a condition, not said to happen | present | a prime minister | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | choose | can | MPs's party | a new leader | the UK | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leader=Theme | |||
| 3 | become | present | a new leader | prime minister | without a general election | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | happen | past | this | 2016 | time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between 2016=Location |
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:13.
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. 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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