Congress and Parliament: how a law is made, sentence 13
When the Commons and the Lords disagree, a bill goes back and forth until they agree; this is called parliamentary ping-pong, and the elected Commons usually gets its way in the end.
Who acts: Commons, bill, Lords, elected Commons · What happens: disagree, go back, agree, call, elect, get · To what, where: this, way, end · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Commons, bill, Lords, elected Commons), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 disagree | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Commons | det |
| 3 | Commons | common | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 disagree | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Lords | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Lords | det |
| 6 | Lords | Lords | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 Commons | conj |
| 7 | disagree | disagree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 goes | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 disagree | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bill | det |
| 10 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 goes | nsubj |
| 11 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 goes | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 forth | cc |
| 14 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 12 back | conj |
| 15 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 17 agree | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 agree | nsubj |
| 17 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 goes | advcl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 called | punct |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 called | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 called | aux:pass |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 goes | conj |
| 22 | parliamentary | parliamentary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 pong | amod |
| 23 | ping | ping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 called | xcomp |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 pong | punct |
| 25 | pong | pong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ping | flat |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 gets | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 gets | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Commons | det |
| 29 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 Commons | amod |
| 30 | Commons | common | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 gets | nsubj |
| 31 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 32 gets | advmod |
| 32 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 called | conj |
| 33 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 way | nmod:poss |
| 34 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 gets | obj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 end | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 end | det |
| 37 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 gets | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disagree | present | the Commons and the Lords | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go back | present | a bill | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | present | Lords | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | call | present · passive | this | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | elect | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | get | present | the elected Commons | bill's way | in the end | usually property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus |
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:13.
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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×2, 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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