--- title: The Liberal Democrats are a UK party often called "the third party";… — Parties: teams with ideas · tree and pragmatics description: The Liberal Democrats are a UK party often called "the third party"; in the UK system, smaller parties can win many votes but fewer seats. Who acts: Liberal Democrats, UK party, smaller 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 (Liberal Democrats, UK party, smaller parties), 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:12 # text = The Liberal Democrats are a UK party often called "the third party"; in the UK system, smaller parties can win many votes but fewer seats. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det 2 Liberal Liberal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Democrats Democrat PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 often often ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 13 amod _ _ 13 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 xcomp _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 system system NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 amod _ _ 22 parties party NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 win win VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 25 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 votes vote NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=26:cc 28 fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 amod _ _ 29 seats seat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 30 . . 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 | **is a** | present | the Liberal Democrats | a UK party | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **call** | participle | a UK party *not said here* | the third party | | | | often *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **win** | can | smaller parties | many votes but fewer seats | | the UK system | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vote=Eventuality | 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:12`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Parties: teams with ideas, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/11/) - next →: [Parties: teams with ideas, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/)