--- title: Canadians vote for MPs in the House of Commons in Ottawa, and the le… — Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Austr… · tree and pragmatics description: Canadians vote for MPs in the House of Commons in Ottawa, and the leader of the biggest party usually becomes prime minister; Canada's Senate is appointed, not elected. Who acts: Canadians, leader. A sentence of the lesson «Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/9-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/) / [Around the English-speaking world: Can…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/9-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand/) / 5 # Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, sentence 5 Canadians vote for MPs in the House of Commons in Ottawa, and the leader of the biggest party usually becomes prime minister; Canada's Senate is appointed, not elected. **Who acts:** Canadians, leader · **What happens:** vote, become, appoint, not elect · **To what, where:** prime minister, Senate 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 (Canadians, leader), 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:5 # text = Canadians vote for MPs in the House of Commons in Ottawa, and the leader of the biggest party usually becomes prime minister; Canada's Senate is appointed, not elected. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Canadians canadian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 vote vote VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 MPs mp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 House house NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Commons common PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Ottawa Ottawa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 leader leader NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 19 amod _ _ 19 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 20 usually usually ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 22 prime prime ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 minister minister NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 xcomp _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 25 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 Senate Senate PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 appointed appoint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 elected elect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **vote** | present | Canadians | | | | | for MPs in the House of Commons in Ottawa *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for mp=Goal | | 2 | **become** | present | the leader of the biggest party | prime minister | | | | usually *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **appoint** | present · passive | | Canada's Senate | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **not** **elect** | participle | | | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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:5`. **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): 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. 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