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title: Neither leader works alone: each picks a cabinet, a top team of mini… — President and Prime Minister, White House and Do… · tree and pragmatics
description: Neither leader works alone: each picks a cabinet, a top team of ministers who run things like health, schools and money; a cabinet is a team, not a cupboard. Who acts: leader, each, ministers, cabinet. A sentence of the lesson «President and Prime Minister, White House and Downing Street» of the pol
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# President and Prime Minister, White House and Downing Street, sentence 2

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Neither leader works alone: each picks a cabinet, a top team of ministers who run things like health, schools and money; a cabinet is a team, not a cupboard.

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**Who acts:** leader, each, ministers, cabinet · **What happens:** work, pick, run, be · **To what, where:** cabinet, things, team

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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 (leader, each, ministers, cabinet), 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:2
# text = Neither leader works alone: each picks a cabinet, a top team of ministers who run things like health, schools and money; a cabinet is a team, not a cupboard.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot
7	picks	pick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cabinet	cabinet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	top	top	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	ministers	minister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:appos
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	cabinet	cabinet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **work** | present | neither leader |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pick** | present | each | a cabinet |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cabinet=Patient |
| 3 | **run** | present | ministers | things |  |  |  | like health and schools and money | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Trajectory |
| 4 | **is a** | present | a cabinet | a team and a cupboard |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:2`.

**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 ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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