President and Prime Minister, White House and Downing Street, sentence 15
In the US, power is split between the president, Congress (which makes laws) and the courts; each can block the others in some ways, which is called checks and balances.
Who acts: Congress, each · What happens: split, make, block, call · To what, where: power, laws, others, ways · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Congress, each), 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 US | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 US | det |
| 3 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 split | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 US | punct |
| 5 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 split | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 split | aux:pass |
| 7 | split | split | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | between | between | ADP | _ | 10 president | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 president | det |
| 10 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 split | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Congress | punct |
| 12 | Congress | Congress | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 president | conj |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 makes | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 makes | nsubj |
| 15 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 Congress | acl:relcl |
| 16 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 makes | obj |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 makes | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 courts | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 courts | det |
| 20 | courts | court | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 president | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 block | punct |
| 22 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 block | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 block | aux |
| 24 | block | block | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 split | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 others | det |
| 26 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 block | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 ways | case |
| 28 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 ways | det |
| 29 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 block | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 called | punct |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 called | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 called | aux:pass |
| 33 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 ways | acl:relcl |
| 34 | checks | check | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 called | xcomp |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 balances | cc |
| 36 | balances | balance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 checks | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 split | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | split | present · passive | power | in the US; between the president and Congress and the courts | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | present | Congress | laws | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset law=Product | ||||
| 3 | block | can | each | the others | some ways | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent other=Patient in way=Location | |||
| 4 | call | present · passive | some ways | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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:15.
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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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