Congress and Parliament: how a law is made, sentence 14

Whips try to make their party's MPs vote together; an MP who votes against their own party is called a rebel, and it happens in Congress too.

Who acts: Whips, MPs, MP, it · What happens: try, make, vote, call, happen · To what, where: MPs, MP, Congress · 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 (Whips, MPs, MP, it), 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	Whips	whip	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 try	nsubj
2	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 make	mark
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 try	xcomp
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 party	nmod:poss
6	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 MPs	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 party	case
8	MPs	mp	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	obj
9	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	xcomp
10	together	together	ADV	_	9 vote	advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 MP	punct
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 MP	det
13	MP	mp	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 called	nsubj:pass
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 votes	nsubj
15	votes	vote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 MP	acl:relcl
16	against	against	ADP	_	19 party	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 party	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 party	amod
19	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 votes	obl
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	2 try	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 rebel	det
23	rebel	rebel	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 called	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 happens	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 happens	cc
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 happens	nsubj
27	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 called	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 Congress	case
29	Congress	Congress	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 happens	obl
30	too	too	ADV	_	27 happens	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 try	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	present	Whips				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	Whips not said here	Whips's party's MPs			tree rules
3	vote not said to happen	infinitive	Whips's party's MPs not said here			together property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	vote	present	a MP			against Whips's own party	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	call	present · passive		a MP			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
6	happen	present	it		Congress		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in congress=Location

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:14.

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 ×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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