Congress and Parliament: how a law is made, sentence 10

A veto is when a US president refuses to sign a bill; Congress can override it if two-thirds of both the House and the Senate vote for it again.

Who acts: veto, Congress · What happens: refuse, not sign, override · To what, where: bill

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 (veto, Congress), 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	2 veto	det
2	veto	veto	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 refuses	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 refuses	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 president	det
6	US	US	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 president	compound
7	president	president	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 refuses	nsubj
8	refuses	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 is	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 sign	mark
10	sign	sign	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 refuses	xcomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bill	det
12	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sign	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 override	punct
14	Congress	Congress	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 override	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 override	aux
16	override	override	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 refuses	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 override	obj
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 vote	mark
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 thirds	nummod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 two	punct
21	thirds	third	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 override	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 House	case
23	both	both	CCONJ	_	25 House	cc:preconj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 House	det
25	House	House	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 thirds	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 vote	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Senate	det
28	Senate	Senate	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 House	conj
29	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 thirds	conj
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 vote	obl
32	again	again	ADV	_	29 vote	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 when	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	refuse	present	a veto			vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not sign	to-infinitive	a veto not said here	a bill		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent bill=Destination
3	override	can	Congress	bill	two thirds of the House and the Senate and vote obl	tree rules

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:10.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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