Congress and Parliament: how a law is made, sentence 16
A debate on a petition does not mean the law changes; it puts the idea in front of MPs.
Who acts: debate, law · What happens: not mean, change, put · To what, where: idea, front · 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 (debate, law), 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 debate | det |
| 2 | debate | debate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 petition | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 petition | det |
| 5 | petition | petition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 debate | nmod |
| 6 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mean | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 mean | advmod |
| 8 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 law | det |
| 10 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 changes | nsubj |
| 11 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mean | ccomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 puts | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 puts | nsubj |
| 14 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mean | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 idea | det |
| 16 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 puts | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 front | case |
| 18 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 puts | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 MPs | case |
| 20 | MPs | mp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 front | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mean | present · do-support | a debate on a petition | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | change | present | the law | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | put | present | law | the idea | front of MPs | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent idea=Theme in front=Destination |
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:16.
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): R5-strong ×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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