Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, sentence 16

New Zealand and Australia hold national elections at least every three years, the USA elects a president every four years, and the UK holds a general election at least every five years.

Who acts: New Zealand, USA, UK · What happens: hold, elect · To what, where: national elections, president, general election

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 (New Zealand, USA, UK), 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	New	New	PROPN	_	2 Zealand	flat
2	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hold	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Australia	cc
4	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Zealand	conj
5	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	national	national	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 elections	amod
7	elections	election	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hold	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 least	case
9	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 three	nmod
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 years	det
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hold	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 elects	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 USA	det
15	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 elects	nsubj
16	elects	elect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hold	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 president	det
18	president	president	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 elects	obj
19	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 years	det
20	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 years	nummod
21	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 elects	obl:unmarked
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 holds	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 holds	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 UK	det
25	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 holds	nsubj
26	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hold	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 election	det
28	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 election	amod
29	election	election	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 holds	obj
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 least	case
31	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 five	nmod
32	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	34 years	det
33	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 years	nummod
34	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 holds	obl:unmarked
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hold	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	hold	present	New Zealand and Australia	national elections	year	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent election=Theme
2	elect	present	the USA	a president	year	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent president=Theme
3	hold	present	the UK	a general election	year	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent election=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:009-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3. 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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