President and Prime Minister, White House and Downing Street, sentence 3

Neither can do anything they like either: a US president is checked by Congress and the courts and can be elected only twice, and a UK prime minister must face noisy questions from MPs every Wednesday and can be replaced by their own party without a general election.

Who acts: things, Congress, UK prime minister, own party · What happens: do, like, check, elect, face, replace · To what, where: anything, US president, noisy questions, MPs

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 (things, Congress, UK prime minister, own 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	Neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	3 do	cc:preconj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 do	aux
3	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 do	obj
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 like	nsubj
6	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 anything	acl:relcl
7	either	either	CCONJ	_	6 like	cc
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 checked	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 president	det
10	US	US	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 president	compound
11	president	president	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 checked	nsubj:pass
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 checked	aux:pass
13	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 do	parataxis
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 Congress	case
15	Congress	Congress	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 checked	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 courts	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 courts	det
18	courts	court	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 Congress	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 elected	cc
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 elected	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 elected	aux:pass
22	elected	elect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 checked	conj
23	only	only	ADV	_	24 twice	advmod
24	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 elected	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 face	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 face	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 minister	det
28	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 minister	compound
29	prime	prime	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 minister	amod
30	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 face	nsubj
31	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 face	aux
32	face	face	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 do	conj
33	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 questions	amod
34	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 face	obj
35	from	from	ADP	_	36 MPs	case
36	MPs	mp	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 questions	nmod
37	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	38 Wednesday	det
38	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 face	obl:unmarked
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 replaced	cc
40	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 replaced	aux
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 replaced	aux:pass
42	replaced	replace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 face	conj
43	by	by	ADP	_	46 party	case
44	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 party	nmod:poss
45	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 party	amod
46	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 replaced	obl
47	without	without	ADP	_	50 election	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 election	det
49	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 election	amod
50	election	election	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 replaced	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 do	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	can		anything				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
2	like	present	things = thing					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	check	present · passive	Congress and the courts	a US president				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
4	elect	can · passive	Congress and the courts not said here				twice property	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»
5	face	must	a UK prime minister	noisy questions	MPs	wednesday		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme question=Destination
6	replace	can · passive	things's own party				without a general election	vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=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:3.

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 ×2, R7-rel-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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