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title: So a party can win lots of votes but few seats, or lots of seats wit… — UK elections and the prime minister, as reported · tree and pragmatics
description: So a party can win lots of votes but few seats, or lots of seats with about a third of the votes. Who acts: party. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# UK elections and the prime minister, as reported, sentence 4

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So a party can win lots of votes but few seats, or lots of seats with about a third of the votes.

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**Who acts:** party · **What happens:** win · **To what, where:** lots

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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 (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:4
# text = So a party can win lots of votes but few seats, or lots of seats with about a third of the 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	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	votes	vote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	seats	seat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	seats	seat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	about	about	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	votes	vote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | can | a party | lots of votes but few seats or lots of seats |  |  |  | with a third of the votes | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Eventuality |

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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:4`.

**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): no change. **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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