President and Prime Minister, White House and Downing Street, sentence 16
After a UK general election, the winning party's leader goes to the King, who asks them to form a government; this is a tradition, and the King does not choose the winner.
Who acts: leader, King, this · What happens: win, go, ask, form, be, not choose · To what, where: others, government, tradition, winner
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 (leader, King, 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 5 election | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 election | det |
| 3 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 election | compound |
| 4 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 election | amod |
| 5 | election | election | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 goes | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 election | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 party | det |
| 8 | winning | win | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 party | amod |
| 9 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leader | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 party | case |
| 11 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 goes | nsubj |
| 12 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 King | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 goes | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 asks | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 asks | nsubj |
| 18 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 King | acl:relcl |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 asks | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 form | mark |
| 21 | form | form | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 asks | xcomp |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 government | det |
| 23 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 form | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 tradition | punct |
| 25 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 tradition | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 tradition | cop |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 tradition | det |
| 28 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 goes | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 choose | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 choose | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 King | det |
| 32 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 choose | nsubj |
| 33 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 choose | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 choose | advmod |
| 35 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 tradition | conj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 winner | det |
| 37 | winner | winner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 choose | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | gerund | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | go | present | the winning party's leader | after a UK general election | to the King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | present | the King | others = other | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | form not said to happen | to-infinitive | the King not said here | a government | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location government=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | this | a tradition | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not choose | present · do-support | the King | the winner | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent winner=Theme |
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:16.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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