--- title: News reports in 2025 said Reform UK, led by Nigel Farage, had been d… — UK elections and the prime minister, as reported · tree and pragmatics description: News reports in 2025 said Reform UK, led by Nigel Farage, had been doing well in opinion polls, sometimes ahead of Labour and the Conservatives; polls are guesses, not results. Who acts: News reports, Reform. 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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 (News reports, Reform), 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:18 # text = News reports in 2025 said Reform UK, led by Nigel Farage, had been doing well in opinion polls, sometimes ahead of Labour and the Conservatives; polls are guesses, not results. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 News news NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 reports report NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 2025 2025 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 Reform Reform PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 7 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 led lead VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Nigel Nigel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl:agent _ _ 12 Farage Farage PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 flat _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 14 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 aux _ _ 16 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 ccomp _ _ 17 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 16 advmod _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 opinion opinion NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 polls poll NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 23 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod 23 ahead ahead ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Labour Labour PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 parataxis _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Conservatives conservative PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 25 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 polls poll NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 31 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 guesses guess NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 results result NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | News reports in 2025 | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **lead** | participle | | Reform *not said here* | | | | | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | | 3 | **do** | past · perfect · progressive | Reform | | | opinion polls and polls and guesses and results | | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | Reform *not said here* | guesses | | | | | tree rules | 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:18`. **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 ×2, 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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