--- title: Canada's Parliament in Ottawa looks a bit like London's, with a Hous… — Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Austr… · tree and pragmatics description: Canada's Parliament in Ottawa looks a bit like London's, with a House of Commons and an appointed Senate, but MPs speak English or French and interpreters turn one into the other as they talk. Who acts: Parliament, MPs, interpreters. 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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 (Parliament, MPs, interpreters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:009-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand.lesson:1 # text = Canada's Parliament in Ottawa looks a bit like London's, with a House of Commons and an appointed Senate, but MPs speak English or French and interpreters turn one into the other as they talk. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 009-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 Parliament parliament PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Ottawa Ottawa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj 9 like like ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 House House PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Commons common PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 appointed appoint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 amod _ _ 21 Senate Senate PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 MPs mp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 speak speak VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis 26 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 French French PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 interpreters interpreter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 32 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 obj _ _ 33 into into ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 obl _ _ 36 as as SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | present | Canada's Parliament in Ottawa | a bit like London | | | | with a House of Commons and a appointed Senate | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **appoint** | participle | | | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | MPs | English or French | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **turn** | present | interpreters | one | | the other | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent one=Theme into other=Trajectory | | 5 | **talk** | present | interpreters *= interpreter* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:009-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-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. 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