Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, sentence 1
Canada's Parliament in Ottawa looks a bit like London's, with a House of Commons and an appointed Senate, but MPs speak English or French and interpreters turn one into the other as they talk.
Who acts: Parliament, MPs, interpreters · What happens: look, appoint, speak, turn, talk · To what, where: bit, English, one, other · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand» 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 (Parliament, MPs, interpreters), 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 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Parliament | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Canada | case |
| 3 | Parliament | parliament | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 looks | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Ottawa | case |
| 5 | Ottawa | Ottawa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Parliament | nmod |
| 6 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bit | det |
| 8 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looks | obl |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 London | case |
| 10 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 bit | nmod |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 London | case |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 House | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 House | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 House | det |
| 15 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 looks | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Commons | case |
| 17 | Commons | common | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 House | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Senate | cc |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 Senate | det |
| 20 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 Senate | amod |
| 21 | Senate | Senate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 House | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 speak | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 speak | cc |
| 24 | MPs | mp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 speak | nsubj |
| 25 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 looks | conj |
| 26 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 speak | obj |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 French | cc |
| 28 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 English | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 turn | cc |
| 30 | interpreters | interpreter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 turn | nsubj |
| 31 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 speak | conj |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 turn | obj |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 other | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 other | det |
| 35 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 turn | obl |
| 36 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 38 talk | mark |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 talk | nsubj |
| 38 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 turn | advcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | Canada's Parliament in Ottawa | a bit like London | with a House of Commons and a appointed Senate | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | appoint | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | present | MPs | English or French | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | turn | present | interpreters | one | the other | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent one=Theme into other=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | talk | present | interpreters = interpreter | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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:009-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand.lesson:1.
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 ×2, R8-pos-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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