--- title: A US president can be elected only twice, for four years each time;… — President and Prime Minister, White House and Do… · tree and pragmatics description: A US president can be elected only twice, for four years each time; this is a term limit; UK prime ministers have no fixed limit but must keep winning elections and keep their party's support. Who acts: this, UK prime ministers, party. 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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 (this, UK prime ministers, party), 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:12 # text = A US president can be elected only twice, for four years each time; this is a term limit; UK prime ministers have no fixed limit but must keep winning elections and keep their party's support. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 president president NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 elected elect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 only only ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 6 advmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 13 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:unmarked _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 16 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 20 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 term term NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 limit limit NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 22 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 23 prime prime ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 ministers minister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 26 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 28 det _ _ 27 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 28 limit limit NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 32 winning win VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 xcomp _ _ 33 elections election NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 36 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 's 's PART POS _ 37 case _ _ 39 support support NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **elect** | can · passive | | a US president | | | year | twice *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | this | a term limit | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | present | UK prime ministers | no fixed limit | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limit=Patient | | 4 | **fix** | participle | | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **keep** | must | UK prime ministers *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **win** | gerund | UK prime ministers *not said here* | elections | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent election=Eventuality | | 7 | **keep** | infinitive | UK prime ministers *not said here* | MPs's party's support | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent support=Theme | | 8 | **support** | | MPs's party | | | | | | nom support «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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: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): 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. 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