--- title: After a UK general election, the winning party's leader goes to the… — President and Prime Minister, White House and Do… · tree and pragmatics description: After a UK general election, the winning party's leader goes to the King, who asks them to form a government; this is a tradition, and the King does not choose the winner. Who acts: leader, King, this. 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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 (leader, King, 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:16 # text = After a UK general election, the winning party's leader goes to the King, who asks them to form a government; this is a tradition, and the King does not choose the winner. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 After after ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 4 general general ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 election election NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 winning win VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 amod _ _ 9 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 leader leader NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 form form VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 25 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 tradition tradition NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=28:cc 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 33 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 winner winner NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **win** | gerund | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **go** | present | the winning party's leader | | | | after a UK general election | to the King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | the King | | others *= other* | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **form** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* | a government | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location government=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | this | a tradition | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **choose** | present · do-support | the King | the winner | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent winner=Theme | 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. 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