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title: The leader of the party with the second-most seats usually becomes t… — Canada · tree and pragmatics
description: The leader of the party with the second-most seats usually becomes the leader of the Official Opposition and is part of an adversarial parliamentary system intended to keep the government in check. Who acts: leader. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Canada» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Canada, sentence 183

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From Wikipedia, [«Canada»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The leader of the party with the second-most seats usually becomes the leader of the Official Opposition and is part of an adversarial parliamentary system intended to keep the government in check.

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**Who acts:** leader · **What happens:** become, be, intend, keep · **To what, where:** part, government, check

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Canada». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leader), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Canada:183
# text = The leader of the party with the second-most seats usually becomes the leader of the Official Opposition and is part of an adversarial parliamentary system intended to keep the government in check.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	seats	seat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
12	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Opposition	opposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	adversarial	adversarial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	parliamentary	parliamentary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
28	intended	intend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | present | the leader of the party with the second most seats |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the leader of the Official Opposition and part *not said here* | part |  |  |  | of a adversarial parliamentary system | tree rules |
| 3 | **intend** | past | the leader of the Official Opposition and part |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the leader of the Official Opposition and part *not said here* | the government |  | check |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent government=Theme in check=Location |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Canada», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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