--- title: In recent years the UK has had a lot of news: the vote to leave the… — UK elections and the prime minister, as reported · tree and pragmatics description: In recent years the UK has had a lot of news: the vote to leave the European Union, three prime ministers in a few months, a landslide election in 2024 and new parties rising in the polls. Who acts: UK, new parties. 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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 (UK, new parties), 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:5 # text = In recent years the UK has had a lot of news: the vote to leave the European Union, three prime ministers in a few months, a landslide election in 2024 and new parties rising in the polls. # 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 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 recent recent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 vote vote NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 acl _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 European European PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 Union Union PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 22 prime prime ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 23 ministers minister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 landslide landslide NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 election election NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 2024 2024 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 nmod _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 parties party NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ _ 37 rising rise VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 36 acl _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 polls poll NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present · perfect | the UK | a lot of news | | | year | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient | | 2 | **leave** | to-infinitive | the UK *not said here* | the European Union | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent union=Theme | | 3 | **rise** | gerund | new parties *not said here* | | | the polls | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in poll=Location | 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:5`. **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. 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