--- title: In the UK, if a prime minister resigns, their party can choose a new… — President and Prime Minister, White House and Do… · tree and pragmatics description: In the UK, if a prime minister resigns, their party can choose a new leader who becomes prime minister without a general election; this happened several times between 2016 and 2022. Who acts: prime minister, party, new leader, this. A sentence of the lesson «President and Prime Minister, White House --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/) / [President and Prime Minister, White Ho…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street/) / 13 # President and Prime Minister, White House and Downing Street, sentence 13 In the UK, if a prime minister resigns, their party can choose a new leader who becomes prime minister without a general election; this happened several times between 2016 and 2022. **Who acts:** prime minister, party, new leader, this · **What happens:** resign, choose, become, happen · **To what, where:** new leader, UK, prime minister, 2016 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 (prime minister, party, new leader, this), 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:13 # text = In the UK, if a prime minister resigns, their party can choose a new leader who becomes prime minister without a general election; this happened several times between 2016 and 2022. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 if if SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 prime prime ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 minister minister NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 resigns resign VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 leader leader NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 prime prime ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 minister minister NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obj 22 without without ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 general general ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 election election NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 nsubj _ _ 28 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj 29 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl:unmarked _ _ 31 between between ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 2016 2016 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 obl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 2022 2022 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **resign** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a prime minister | | | | | | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **choose** | can | MPs's party | a new leader | | the UK | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leader=Theme | | 3 | **become** | present | a new leader | prime minister | | | | without a general election | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **happen** | past | this | | | 2016 | time | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between 2016=Location | 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:13`. **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/). - ← previous: [President and Prime Minister, White Ho…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street/12/) - next →: [President and Prime Minister, White Ho…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street/)