Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★, sentence 9
A UK bill that starts in the House of Commons must pass the Commons and the House of Lords and then get Royal Assent from the King; a US bill must pass the House and the Senate and then be signed by the president.
Who acts: UK bill, US bill, president · What happens: start, pass, get, sign · To what, where: House, Commons, Royal Assent
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★» 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 (UK bill, US bill, president), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bill | det |
| 2 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bill | compound |
| 3 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pass | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 starts | nsubj |
| 5 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bill | acl:relcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 House | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 House | det |
| 8 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 starts | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Commons | case |
| 10 | Commons | Commons | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 House | nmod |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 pass | aux |
| 12 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Commons | det |
| 14 | Commons | Commons | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 pass | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 House | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 House | det |
| 17 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Commons | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Lords | case |
| 19 | Lords | Lords | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 House | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 get | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 get | advmod |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 pass | conj |
| 23 | Royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Assent | amod |
| 24 | Assent | assent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 King | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 King | det |
| 27 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 pass | punct |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 bill | det |
| 30 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 bill | compound |
| 31 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 pass | nsubj |
| 32 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 pass | aux |
| 33 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 pass | parataxis |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 House | det |
| 35 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 pass | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 Senate | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Senate | det |
| 38 | Senate | Senate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 House | conj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 signed | cc |
| 40 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 42 signed | advmod |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 42 signed | aux:pass |
| 42 | signed | sign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 pass | conj |
| 43 | by | by | ADP | _ | 45 president | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 president | det |
| 45 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 signed | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 pass | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | a UK bill | the House of Commons | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | pass | must | a UK bill | the Commons and the House of Lords | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme commons=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | get | infinitive | a UK bill not said here | Royal Assent | then | from the King | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent assent=Theme from king=Source | ||
| 4 | pass | must | a US bill | the House and the Senate | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | sign | infinitive · passive | the president | then | vn image_impression-25.1 «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, 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:041-olympiad-fair-votes-close-counts-and-who-decides.lesson:9.
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 ×5. 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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