Congress and Parliament: how a law is made, sentence 11

A constituent is a person who lives in the area an MP represents; anyone can write to their MP or member of Congress, including children.

Who acts: constituent, person, MP, anyone · What happens: be, live, represent, write · To what, where: person, area, MP

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 (constituent, person, MP, anyone), 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 constituent	det
2	constituent	constituent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 person	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 person	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 person	det
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 lives	nsubj
7	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 person	acl:relcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 area	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 area	det
10	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lives	obl
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 MP	det
12	MP	mp	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 represents	nsubj
13	represents	represent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 area	acl:relcl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 write	punct
15	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 write	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 write	aux
17	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 person	parataxis
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 MP	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 MP	nmod:poss
20	MP	mp	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 write	obl
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 member	cc
22	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 MP	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Congress	case
24	Congress	Congress	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 member	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 children	punct
26	including	include	ADP	_	27 children	case
27	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 write	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 person	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a constituent	a person				tree rules
2	live	present	a person			the area		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in area=Location
3	represent	present	a MP	the area not said here				vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot area=Theme
4	write	can	anyone		MP's MP or member of Congress		include children	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to mp=Recipient

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:11.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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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