Congress and Parliament: how a law is made, sentence 12

Every US state has two senators, big or small, but in the House, states with more people get more members: California has more than fifty, Wyoming has one.

Who acts: US state, states, California, Wyoming · What happens: have, get · To what, where: two senators, more members, House, fifty, one

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 (US state, states, California, Wyoming), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 state	det
2	US	US	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 state	compound
3	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 senators	nummod
6	senators	senator	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 big	punct
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 senators	amod
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 small	cc
10	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 big	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 states	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 get	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 House	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 House	det
15	House	House	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 get	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 House	punct
17	states	state	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 get	nsubj
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 people	case
19	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 people	amod
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 states	nmod
21	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	conj
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 members	amod
23	members	member	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 get	obj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 has	punct
25	California	California	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 has	nsubj
26	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 get	conj
27	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	29 fifty	advmod
28	than	than	ADP	_	27 more	fixed
29	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 has	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 has	punct
31	Wyoming	Wyoming	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 has	nsubj
32	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 has	parataxis
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 has	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	every US state	two senators		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent senator=Patient
2	get	present	states with more people	more members	the House	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer member=Stimulus
3	have	present	California	fifty		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fifty=Patient
4	have	present	Wyoming	one		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

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:12.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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