--- title: The King is head of state in a constitutional monarchy: he does not… — UK elections and the prime minister, as reported · tree and pragmatics description: The King is head of state in a constitutional monarchy: he does not run the country or take sides, and at the King's Speech he reads out the government's plans. Who acts: King, government. 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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 (King, government), 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:20 # text = The King is head of state in a constitutional monarchy: he does not run the country or take sides, and at the King's Speech he reads out the government's plans. # 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 ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 constitutional constitutional ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 monarchy monarchy NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 11 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 20 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 Speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 reads read VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 30 out out ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 's 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 plans plan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 35 . . 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 | **is a** | present | the King | head | | a constitutional monarchy | | of state | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **run** | present · do-support | King | the country | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme country=Trajectory | | 3 | **take** | infinitive | King *not said here* | sides | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Theme | | 4 | **read out** | present | King | the government's plans | | the King's Speech | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent plan=Theme at speech=Value | | 5 | **speak** | | the King | | | | | | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **plan** | | the government | | | | | | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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:20`. **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 ×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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