--- title: Neither can do anything they like either: a US president is checked… — President and Prime Minister, White House and Do… · tree and pragmatics description: Neither can do anything they like either: a US president is checked by Congress and the courts and can be elected only twice, and a UK prime minister must face noisy questions from MPs every Wednesday and can be replaced by their own party without a general election. 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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 (things, Congress, UK prime minister, own 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:3 # text = Neither can do anything they like either: a US president is checked by Congress and the courts and can be elected only twice, and a UK prime minister must face noisy questions from MPs every Wednesday and can be replaced by their own party without a general election. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 3 cc:preconj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 do do VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 obj _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 either either CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 president president NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 checked check VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl 14 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Congress Congress PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 courts court NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 elected elect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 23 only only ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 22 advmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 29 prime prime ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 minister minister NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 face face VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 33 noisy noisy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 35 from from ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 MPs mp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:obl 37 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 38 det _ _ 38 Wednesday Wednesday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obl:unmarked _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 40 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 replaced replace VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 conj _ _ 43 by by ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 45 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 47 without without ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 general general ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 election election NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | can | | anything | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | | 2 | **like** | present | things *= thing* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **check** | present · passive | Congress and the courts | a US president | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 4 | **elect** | can · passive | Congress and the courts *not said here* | | | | | twice *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP» | | 5 | **face** | must | a UK prime minister | noisy questions | | MPs | wednesday | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme question=Destination | | 6 | **replace** | can · passive | things's own party | | | | | without a general election | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:politics:005-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street.lesson:3`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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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