--- title: It was reported that Boris Johnson stepped down in 2022 after many o… — UK elections and the prime minister, as reported · tree and pragmatics description: It was reported that Boris Johnson stepped down in 2022 after many of his own ministers quit; Liz Truss followed, then Rishi Sunak, all from the Conservative Party, also called the Tories. Who acts: Boris, many, Liz. 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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 (Boris, many, Liz), 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:12 # text = It was reported that Boris Johnson stepped down in 2022 after many of his own ministers quit; Liz Truss followed, then Rishi Sunak, all from the Conservative Party, also called the Tories. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 Boris Boris PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 Johnson Johnson PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 7 stepped step VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 8 down down PART RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 2022 2022 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obl _ _ 11 after after SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 12 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 nsubj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 ministers minister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 17 quit quit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 Liz Liz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 Truss Truss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 flat _ _ 21 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ _ 24 Rishi Rishi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 25 Sunak Sunak PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 flat _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 31 det _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 Conservative Conservative PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 Party Party PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 also also ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 Tories tory NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **report** | past · passive | | person | | | | Rishi and all Conservative Party *obl* | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **step down** | past | Boris | | | 2022 | | | vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **quit** | past | many of Boris's own ministers | | | | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **follow** | past | Liz | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **call** | past | | the Tories | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tory=Recipient | 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:12`. **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): R7-rel-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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