--- title: Proportional representation is a different system in which a party's… — UK elections and the prime minister, as reported · tree and pragmatics description: Proportional representation is a different system in which a party's share of seats matches its share of votes. Who acts: Proportional representation, share, party. 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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 (Proportional representation, share, party), 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:17 # text = Proportional representation is a different system in which a party's share of seats matches its share of votes. # 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): no change 1 Proportional proportional ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 representation representation NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 system system NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 obl _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 share share NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 seats seat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 15 matches match VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 share share NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 votes vote NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **is a** | present | Proportional representation | a different system | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **match** | present | a party's share of seats | party's share of votes | | a different system | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Patient | | 3 | **share** | | a party | seats | | | | | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=patient | | 4 | **share** | | party | votes | | | | | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=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. 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