--- title: The Taoiseach is Ireland's head of government, like a prime minister… — Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Austr… · tree and pragmatics description: The Taoiseach is Ireland's head of government, like a prime minister, and the Dáil is the main elected house of Ireland's Parliament; the words come from Irish, one of Ireland's official languages. Who acts: Taoiseach, Dáil, words. 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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 (Taoiseach, Dáil, words), 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:10 # text = The Taoiseach is Ireland's head of government, like a prime minister, and the Dáil is the main elected house of Ireland's Parliament; the words come from Irish, one of Ireland's official languages. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Taoiseach taoiseach PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 like like ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 prime prime ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 minister minister NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Dáil Dáil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 main main ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 elected elect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ _ 22 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 's 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 Parliament parliament PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=22:conj 31 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Irish Irish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 appos _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 36 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nmod:poss _ _ 37 's 's PART POS _ 36 case _ _ 38 official official ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 languages language NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ _ 40 . . 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 | **is a** | present | the Taoiseach | Ireland's head and the main elected house | | | | of government; like a prime minister | tree rules | | 2 | **elect** | participle | | | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | the Dáil | the main elected house | | | | of Ireland's Parliament | tree rules | | 4 | **come** | present | the words | | | Irish | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from irish=Initial\_Location | 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:10`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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