--- title: Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) happens every Wednesday when Parli… — President and Prime Minister, White House and Do… · tree and pragmatics description: Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) happens every Wednesday when Parliament is sitting; MPs, including the leader of the opposition, question the prime minister in public. Who acts: Questions, Parliament, MPs. 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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 (Questions, Parliament, MPs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:005-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street.lesson:10 # text = Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) happens every Wednesday when Parliament is sitting; MPs, including the leader of the opposition, question the prime minister in public. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 005-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street.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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Prime Prime ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 Minister Minister PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 Questions question PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 5 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 6 PMQs PMQs PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 7 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 8 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 Wednesday Wednesday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Rel 14 advmod _ _ 12 Parliament parliament PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:parataxis 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 16 MPs mp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 18 including include ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 leader leader NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 opposition opposition NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 question question VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 prime prime ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 minister minister NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 public public ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | present | Prime Minister's Questions | | | | wednesday | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **sit** | present · progressive | Parliament | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **question** *speech: other* | present | MPs include the leader of the opposition | the prime minister | | public | | | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minister=Recipient | 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:005-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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