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title: The opposition is the parties not in government; their job is to cha… — President and Prime Minister, White House and Do… · tree and pragmatics
description: The opposition is the parties not in government; their job is to challenge it. Who acts: opposition, job, MPs. A sentence of the lesson «President and Prime Minister, White House and Downing Street» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# President and Prime Minister, White House and Downing Street, sentence 11

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The opposition is the parties not in government; their job is to challenge it.

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**Who acts:** opposition, job, MPs · **What happens:** not be, be, job · **To what, where:** parties, government

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This is a sentence of the lesson «President and Prime Minister, White House and Downing Street» 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 (opposition, job, 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:11
# text = The opposition is the parties not in government; their job is to challenge it.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	opposition	opposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	challenge	challenge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | the opposition | the parties |  | government |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | MPs's job |  |  |  |  | challenge *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **job** |  | MPs *= mp* |  |  |  |  |  | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:005-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street.lesson:11`.

**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): no change. **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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