--- title: In the UK the two biggest parties for a long time have been Labour a… — Parties: teams with ideas · tree and pragmatics description: In the UK the two biggest parties for a long time have been Labour and the Conservatives; in the USA they are the Democrats (whose cartoon symbol is a donkey) and the Republicans (an elephant). Who acts: two biggest parties, Conservatives, cartoon symbol. 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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 (two biggest parties, Conservatives, cartoon symbol), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:004-parties-teams-with-ideas.lesson:1 # text = In the UK the two biggest parties for a long time have been Labour and the Conservatives; in the USA they are the Democrats (whose cartoon symbol is a donkey) and the Republicans (an elephant). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 004-parties-teams-with-ideas.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 6 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 parties party NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 12 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 cop _ _ 14 Labour Labour PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Conservatives conservative PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 14 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Democrats Democrat PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 14 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj 26 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 27 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 symbol symbol NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 donkey donkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:acl:relcl 33 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 Republicans Republican PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 37 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 39 punct _ _ 38 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 appos _ _ 40 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 39 punct _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3: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 · perfect | the two biggest parties for a long time | Labour and the Conservatives | | the UK | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | Conservatives *= conservative* | the Democrats and the Republicans | | the USA | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | a donkey's cartoon symbol | a donkey | | | | | tree rules | 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:004-parties-teams-with-ideas.lesson:1`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Parties: teams with ideas, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/0/) - next →: [Parties: teams with ideas, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/)