Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, sentence 5
Canadians vote for MPs in the House of Commons in Ottawa, and the leader of the biggest party usually becomes prime minister; Canada's Senate is appointed, not elected.
Who acts: Canadians, leader · What happens: vote, become, appoint, not elect · To what, where: prime minister, Senate
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 (Canadians, leader), 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 | Canadians | canadian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 vote | nsubj |
| 2 | vote | vote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 MPs | case |
| 4 | MPs | mp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 vote | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 House | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 House | det |
| 7 | House | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 MPs | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Commons | case |
| 9 | Commons | common | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 House | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Ottawa | case |
| 11 | Ottawa | Ottawa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Commons | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 becomes | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 becomes | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 leader | det |
| 15 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 becomes | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 party | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 party | det |
| 18 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 party | amod |
| 19 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leader | nmod |
| 20 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 21 becomes | advmod |
| 21 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 vote | conj |
| 22 | prime | prime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 minister | amod |
| 23 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 becomes | xcomp |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 appointed | punct |
| 25 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Senate | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 Canada | case |
| 27 | Senate | Senate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 appointed | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 appointed | aux:pass |
| 29 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 vote | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 elected | punct |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 elected | advmod |
| 32 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 appointed | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 vote | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vote | present | Canadians | for MPs in the House of Commons in Ottawa goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for mp=Goal | ||||
| 2 | become | present | the leader of the biggest party | prime minister | usually property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | appoint | present · passive | Canada's Senate | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not elect | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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:5.
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): 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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