--- title: People vote for an MP, a Member of Parliament, for their local area;… — UK elections and the prime minister, as reported · tree and pragmatics description: People vote for an MP, a Member of Parliament, for their local area; if a party picks a new leader between general elections, that person can become prime minister without a general election. Who acts: People, party, person. 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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 (People, party, person), 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:11 # text = People vote for an MP, a Member of Parliament, for their local area; if a party picks a new leader between general elections, that person can become prime minister without a general election. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 vote vote VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 MP mp NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Member member NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Parliament parliament PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 local local ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 area area NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 if if SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 picks pick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 leader leader NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 between between ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 general general ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 elections election NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 29 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 32 prime prime ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 minister minister NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 xcomp _ _ 34 without without ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 general general ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 election election NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **vote** | present | People | | | | | for a MP *goal*; for People's local area | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for mp=Goal | | 2 | **pick** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a party | a new leader | | | | between general elections | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leader=Patient | | 3 | **become** | can | that person | prime minister | | | | without a general election | 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:11`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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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