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title: It is like each class electing a rep, and the group with the most re… — UK elections and the prime minister, as reported · tree and pragmatics
description: It is like each class electing a rep, and the group with the most reps choosing the head of the school council. Who acts: class, group. A sentence of the lesson «UK elections and the prime minister, as reported» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# UK elections and the prime minister, as reported, sentence 2

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It is like each class electing a rep, and the group with the most reps choosing the head of the school council.

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**Who acts:** class, group · **What happens:** elect, choose · **To what, where:** rep, head

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This is a sentence of the lesson «UK elections and the prime minister, as reported» of the politics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (class, group), 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:2
# text = It is like each class electing a rep, and the group with the most reps choosing the head of the school council.
# 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:outer	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	0	root	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	electing	elect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	obl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rep	rep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup
16	reps	rep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
17	choosing	choose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	acl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **elect** | gerund | each class and the group with the most reps | a rep |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rep=Theme |
| 2 | **choose** | gerund | the group with the most reps *not said here* | the head of the school council |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |

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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.

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**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:2`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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