--- title: A new president's term starts on Inauguration Day, 20 January, with… — US elections and the president, as reported · tree and pragmatics description: A new president's term starts on Inauguration Day, 20 January, with an oath to "preserve, protect and defend" the Constitution; in 2025 it was reported the ceremony was moved indoors because of the cold. Who acts: term, new president. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (term, new president), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:016-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported.lesson:19 # text = A new president's term starts on Inauguration Day, 20 January, with an oath to "preserve, protect and defend" the Constitution; in 2025 it was reported the ceremony was moved indoors because of the cold. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 016-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 president president NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 term term NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 Inauguration inauguration PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 Day Day PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 flat _ _ 12 January January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 oath oath NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:appos 17 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 preserve preserve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 acl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 defend defend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=21:conj 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Constitution Constitution PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 2025 2025 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 obl _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 ceremony ceremony NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 moved move VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 ccomp _ _ 37 indoors indoors ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 38 because because ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 38 fixed _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 cold cold NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=36:obl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 42 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | present | a new president's term | | | | on Inauguration Day | with a oath | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with oath=Subeventuality | | 2 | **preserve** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a new president's term *not said here* | | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **protect** *in a quote* | infinitive | a new president's term *not said here* | | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **defend** *in a quote* | infinitive | a new president's term *not said here* | | the Constitution | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent constitution=Beneficiary | | 5 | **report** | past · passive | | term | | 2025 | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 6 | **move** | past · passive | | the ceremony | | | | because the cold; indoors *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | | 7 | **term** | | a new president | | | | | | nom term «communication transitive»: poss=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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