--- title: Prime ministers can choose when to call a general election, as long… — UK elections and the prime minister, as reported · tree and pragmatics description: Prime ministers can choose when to call a general election, as long as it is within five years of the last one; it was reported that Rishi Sunak announced the July 2024 election outside 10 Downing Street in pouring rain. Who acts: Prime ministers, minister, Rishi. 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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 (Prime ministers, minister, Rishi), 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:14 # text = Prime ministers can choose when to call a general election, as long as it is within five years of the last one; it was reported that Rishi Sunak announced the July 2024 election outside 10 Downing Street in pouring rain. # 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 Prime prime ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 ministers minister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 general general ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 election election NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 as as ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 10 advmod _ _ 14 as as ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 17 within within ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 advcl _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 Rishi Rishi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 Sunak Sunak PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 flat _ _ 31 announced announce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 33 July July PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 34 2024 2024 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 flat _ _ 35 election election NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 36 outside outside ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 38 Downing down PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 Street Street PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 pouring pouring NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **choose** | can | Prime ministers | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **call** | to-infinitive | Prime ministers *not said here* | a general election | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent election=Recipient | | 3 | **is** | present | minister | | | | as five years | of the last one | tree rules | | 4 | **report** | past · passive | | minister | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 5 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | Rishi | the July election | | | | outside 10 Downing Street | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent election=Theme | 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:14`. **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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