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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 (area, leader), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:017-uk-elections-and-the-prime-minister-as-reported.lesson:1 # text = The country is split into about 650 areas, each area picks one MP, and the leader of the party with the most MPs usually becomes prime minister. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 017-uk-elections-and-the-prime-minister-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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 split split VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 into into ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 about about ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 650 650 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 areas area NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 11 det _ _ 11 area area NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 picks pick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 MP mp NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 leader leader NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 25 amod _ _ 25 MPs mp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 26 usually usually ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 28 prime prime ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 minister minister NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:obj 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **split** | present · passive | | the country | | | | into 650 areas *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into area=Result | | 2 | **pick** | present | each area | one MP | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mp=Patient | | 3 | **become** | present | the leader of the party with the most MPs | prime minister | | | | usually *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:politics:017-uk-elections-and-the-prime-minister-as-reported.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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