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title: In the UK the Prime Minister leads the government from 10 Downing St… — Votes, parties and the people in charge · tree and pragmatics
description: In the UK the Prime Minister leads the government from 10 Downing Street; in the USA the leader is the President, and both must obey the law. Who acts: Prime Minister, leader, both. A sentence of the lesson «Votes, parties and the people in charge» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school w
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# Votes, parties and the people in charge, sentence 13

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In the UK the Prime Minister leads the government from 10 Downing Street; in the USA the leader is the President, and both must obey the law.

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**Who acts:** Prime Minister, leader, both · **What happens:** lead, be, obey · **To what, where:** government, UK, President, USA, law

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Votes, parties and the people in charge» of the adult life 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 (Prime Minister, leader, both), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:031-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge.lesson:13
# text = In the UK the Prime Minister leads the government from 10 Downing Street; in the USA the leader is the President, and both must obey the law.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 031-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Prime	Prime	PROPN	NNP	_	6	compound	_	_
6	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	leads	lead	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	Downing	Downing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Street	Street	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	nsubj	_	_
26	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	obey	obey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | present | the Prime Minister | the government |  | the UK |  | from 10 Downing Street | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent government=Theme in uk=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the leader | the President |  | the USA |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **obey** | must | both | the law |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Theme |

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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.

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**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): no change. **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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