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title: Ireland has no king: its President lives in a big white house in a D… — Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Austr… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ireland has no king: its President lives in a big white house in a Dublin park and mostly does ceremonies, while the Taoiseach (said TEE-shuck) runs the government and answers to the Dáil (said DOYL); Irish counts can take days because votes move from one choice to the next. Who acts: Ireland, Presi
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# Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, sentence 3

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Ireland has no king: its President lives in a big white house in a Dublin park and mostly does ceremonies, while the Taoiseach (said TEE-shuck) runs the government and answers to the Dáil (said DOYL); Irish counts can take days because votes move from one choice to the next.

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**Who acts:** Ireland, President, Taoiseach, DOYL, Irish counts, votes · **What happens:** have, live, do, say, run, answer · **To what, where:** king, big white house, ceremonies, TEE shuck, government, one choice · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand» 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 (Ireland, President, Taoiseach, DOYL), 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:3
# text = Ireland has no king: its President lives in a big white house in a Dublin park and mostly does ceremonies, while the Taoiseach (said TEE-shuck) runs the government and answers to the Dáil (said DOYL); Irish counts can take days because votes move from one choice to the next.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
8	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
21	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Taoiseach	taoiseach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
27	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	acl	_	_
28	TEE	tee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	_
30	shuck	shuck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:nsubj
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
32	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	answers	answer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	Dáil	Dáil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	41	punct	_	_
41	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=39:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part
42	DOYL	DOYL	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
43	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	41	punct	_	_
44	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	counts	count	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nsubj	_	_
47	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
49	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obj	_	_
50	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
51	votes	vote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nsubj	_	_
52	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	advcl	_	_
53	from	from	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	55	nummod	_	_
55	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
56	to	to	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	obl	_	_
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Ireland | no king |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient |
| 2 | **live** | present | bread's President | no king *not said here* |  | a big white house in a Dublin park |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location |
| 3 | **do** | present | bread's President *not said here* | ceremonies |  |  |  | mostly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ceremony=Eventuality |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle | the Taoiseach *not said here* | TEE shuck |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent shuck=Topic |
| 5 | **run** | present | the Taoiseach | the government |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme government=Trajectory |
| 6 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | the Taoiseach *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the Dáil | vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to dáil=Co-Agent |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | DOYL |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **take** | can | Irish counts |  |  |  | day |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **move** | present | votes |  |  | one choice |  | to the next | vn slide-11.2 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from choice=Initial\_Location to next=Destination |

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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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**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 ×3. **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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