Congress and Parliament: how a law is made, sentence 17

Some people say the two-part system stops rushed or silly laws; others say it makes things too slow because one part can block what most people want.

Who acts: people, part system, others, law, one part, most people · What happens: say, stop, rush, make, block, want · To what, where: rushed laws, things · 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 (people, part system, others, 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 system	det
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 part	nummod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 two	punct
7	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 system	compound
8	system	system	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stops	nsubj
9	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	ccomp
10	rushed	rush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 laws	amod
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 laws	cc
12	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rushed	conj
13	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stops	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
15	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 say	nsubj
16	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 makes	nsubj
18	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 say	ccomp
19	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 makes	obj
20	too	too	ADV	_	21 slow	advmod
21	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 makes	xcomp
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 block	mark
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 part	nummod
24	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 block	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 block	aux
26	block	block	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 makes	advcl
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 block	obj
28	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 people	amod
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 want	nsubj
30	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 what	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	some people			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stop	present	the part system	rushed laws		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality law=Eventuality
3	rush	participle				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	present	others			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	make	present	law	things	slow property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material thing=Product
6	block	can	one part			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer what=Theme
7	want	present	most people			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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:17.

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. 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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