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title: In the UK, the prime minister is the leader of the party that wins m… — President and Prime Minister, White House and Do… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the UK, the prime minister is the leader of the party that wins most seats in Parliament, and the King is head of state. Who acts: prime minister, party, King. A sentence of the lesson «President and Prime Minister, White House and Downing Street» of the politics course of Mova's primary school w
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# President and Prime Minister, White House and Downing Street, sentence 6

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In the UK, the prime minister is the leader of the party that wins most seats in Parliament, and the King is head of state.

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**Who acts:** prime minister, party, King · **What happens:** be, win · **To what, where:** leader, UK, most seats, Parliament, head

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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 (prime minister, party, King), 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:6
# text = In the UK, the prime minister is the leader of the party that wins most seats in Parliament, and the King is head of state.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
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	10	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	prime	prime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	wins	win	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup
17	seats	seat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Parliament	parliament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **is a** | present | the prime minister | the leader and head |  | the UK |  | of the party | tree rules |
| 2 | **win** | present | the party | most seats |  | Parliament |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the King | head |  |  |  | of state | 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:6`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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