--- title: In 2016 the UK held a referendum on leaving the European Union, a gr… — UK elections and the prime minister, as reported · tree and pragmatics description: In 2016 the UK held a referendum on leaving the European Union, a group of countries sharing trade rules; just over half of those who voted chose to leave, and the UK left in January 2020. Who acts: UK, referendum, countries, half. 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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, referendum, countries, half), 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:9 # text = In 2016 the UK held a referendum on leaving the European Union, a group of countries sharing trade rules; just over half of those who voted chose to leave, and the UK left in January 2020. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 2016 2016 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 referendum referendum NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 on on SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 9 leaving leave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 acl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 European European PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 Union Union PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 18 sharing share VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 acl _ _ 19 trade trade NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 22 just just ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod 23 over over ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 29 nsubj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 24 nmod _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 voted vote VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 chose choose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 37 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 January January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 39 2020 2020 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 38 nmod:unmarked _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | past | the UK | a referendum | | 2016 | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent referendum=Theme in 2016=Location | | 2 | **leave** | gerund | a referendum *not said here* | the European Union | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent union=Theme | | 3 | **share** | gerund | countries *not said here* | trade rules | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **vote** | past | | | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **choose** | past | half of those | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **leave** | to-infinitive | half of those *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **leave** | past | the UK | | | | january | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:9`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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