Congress and Parliament: how a law is made, sentence 1
Picture your class making a rule about phones at lunch: first someone reads it out, then everyone argues, then a few children fix the wording, then the class votes; Parliament and Congress do the same, only slower and more carefully.
Who acts: you, someone, everyone, few children, class votes · What happens: picture, make, read out, argue, fix, do · To what, where: class, rule, lunch, wording, same
This is a sentence of the lesson «Congress and Parliament: how a law is made» 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 (you, someone, everyone, few children), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 class | nmod:poss |
| 3 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 4 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Picture | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 rule | det |
| 6 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 making | obj |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 phones | case |
| 8 | phones | phone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rule | nmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 lunch | case |
| 10 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 making | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 reads | punct |
| 12 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 reads | advmod |
| 13 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 reads | nsubj |
| 14 | reads | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 reads | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 reads | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 argues | punct |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 argues | advmod |
| 19 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 20 argues | nsubj |
| 20 | argues | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 reads | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fix | punct |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 fix | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 children | det |
| 24 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 children | amod |
| 25 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 fix | nsubj |
| 26 | fix | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 argues | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 wording | det |
| 28 | wording | wording | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fix | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 votes | punct |
| 30 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 votes | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 votes | det |
| 32 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 votes | compound |
| 33 | votes | vote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 do | nsubj |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
| 35 | Parliament | parliament | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 do | nsubj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 Congress | cc |
| 37 | Congress | Congress | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Parliament | conj |
| 38 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 same | det |
| 40 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 do | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 slower | punct |
| 42 | only | only | ADV | _ | 43 slower | advmod |
| 43 | slower | slow | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Picture | advmod |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 more | cc |
| 45 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 46 carefully | advmod |
| 46 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 43 slower | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | your class | slow property | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent class=Theme clause=Attribute | |||
| 2 | make | gerund | you not said here | a rule | lunch | about phones | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rule=Product | ||
| 3 | read out | present | someone | rule | first property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 4 | argue speech: disagree | present | everyone | then | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | fix | present | a few children | the wording | then | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wording=Patient | |||
| 6 | do | present | the class votes | the same | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality |
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:006-congress-and-parliament-how-a-law-is-made.lesson:1.
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 ×4, 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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