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title: The SNP, the Scottish National Party, wants Scotland to become indep… — Parties: teams with ideas · tree and pragmatics
description: The SNP, the Scottish National Party, wants Scotland to become independent from the UK; in a 2014 referendum most Scottish voters chose to stay, but the debate goes on. Who acts: SNP, Scotland, most Scottish voters, debate. A sentence of the lesson «Parties: teams with ideas» of the politics course 
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# Parties: teams with ideas, sentence 10

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The SNP, the Scottish National Party, wants Scotland to become independent from the UK; in a 2014 referendum most Scottish voters chose to stay, but the debate goes on.

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**Who acts:** SNP, Scotland, most Scottish voters, debate · **What happens:** want, become, choose, stay, go on · **To what, where:** Scotland, 2014 referendum

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Parties: teams with ideas» 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 (SNP, Scotland, most Scottish voters, debate), 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:10
# text = The SNP, the Scottish National Party, wants Scotland to become independent from the UK; in a 2014 referendum most Scottish voters chose to stay, but the debate goes on.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	SNP	SNP	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	Scottish	Scottish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	National	National	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
7	Party	Party	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	2014	2014	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	referendum	referendum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
22	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	amod	_	_
23	Scottish	Scottish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	voters	voter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	debate	debate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
33	on	on	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | the SNP | Scotland |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Scotland *not said here* |  |  |  |  | independent *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **choose** | past | most Scottish voters |  |  | a 2014 referendum |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stay** | to-infinitive | most Scottish voters *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **go on** | present | the debate |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:004-parties-teams-with-ideas.lesson:10`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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