--- title: At Prime Minister's Questions, held every week while Parliament sits… — UK elections and the prime minister, as reported · tree and pragmatics description: At Prime Minister's Questions, held every week while Parliament sits, MPs question the prime minister, the opposition challenges the government, and the Speaker keeps order. Who acts: Parliament, MPs, opposition, Speaker. 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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 (Parliament, MPs, opposition, Speaker), 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:19 # text = At Prime Minister's Questions, held every week while Parliament sits, MPs question the prime minister, the opposition challenges the government, and the Speaker keeps order. # 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 ×3 1 At at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 Prime Prime PROPN NNP _ 3 compound _ _ 3 Minister Minister PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 Questions question PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 15 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 8 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 9 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 while while SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 Parliament parliament PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advcl 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 MPs mp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 question question VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 prime prime ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 minister minister NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 opposition opposition NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 challenges challenge VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Speaker speaker PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 29 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 30 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 15 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 | **hold** | participle | | Prime Minister's Questions *not said here* | | | week | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **sit** | present | Parliament | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **question** *speech: other* | present | MPs | the prime minister | | Prime Minister's Questions | | | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minister=Recipient | | 4 | **challenge** | present | the opposition | the government | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **keep** | present | the Speaker | order | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=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:19`. **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 ×3. **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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