Congress and Parliament: how a law is made, sentence 15
In the UK, anyone can start a petition on the Parliament website: at 10,000 signatures the government replies, and at 100,000 it is considered for a debate.
Who acts: anyone, government · What happens: start, reply, consider · To what, where: petition, UK, 10,000 signatures, government, 100,000
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 (anyone, government), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 UK | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 UK | det |
| 3 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 start | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 UK | punct |
| 5 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 start | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 start | aux |
| 7 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 petition | det |
| 9 | petition | petition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 start | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 website | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 website | det |
| 12 | Parliament | parliament | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 website | compound |
| 13 | website | website | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 petition | nmod |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 replies | punct |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 signatures | case |
| 16 | 10,000 | 10000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 signatures | nummod |
| 17 | signatures | signature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 replies | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 government | det |
| 19 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 replies | nsubj |
| 20 | replies | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 start | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 considered | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 considered | cc |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 100,000 | case |
| 24 | 100,000 | 100000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 considered | obl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 considered | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 considered | aux:pass |
| 27 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 replies | conj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 debate | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 debate | det |
| 30 | debate | debate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 considered | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 start | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | can | anyone | a petition | the UK | on the Parliament website | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent petition=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | present | the government | 10,000 signatures | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | consider | present · passive | government | 100,000 | for a debate | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
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:15.
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): 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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