Congress and Parliament: how a law is made, sentence 2
Both have two parts: the US Congress has the House of Representatives and the Senate, and the UK Parliament has the elected House of Commons, with its green benches and loud "Hear, hear!", and the House of Lords, with red benches and members who are chosen, not voted in.
Who acts: Both, US Congress, UK Parliament · What happens: have, elect, hear, choose, not vote in · To what, where: two parts, House, elected House, members
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 (Both, US Congress, UK Parliament), 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 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 parts | nummod |
| 4 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 has | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Congress | det |
| 7 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Congress | compound |
| 8 | Congress | Congress | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 has | nsubj |
| 9 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 parts | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 House | det |
| 11 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 has | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Representatives | case |
| 13 | Representatives | Representative | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 House | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Senate | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Senate | det |
| 16 | Senate | Senate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 House | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 has | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 has | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Parliament | det |
| 20 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Parliament | compound |
| 21 | Parliament | parliament | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 has | nsubj |
| 22 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 has | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 House | det |
| 24 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 House | amod |
| 25 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 has | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Commons | case |
| 27 | Commons | common | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 House | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 benches | punct |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 benches | case |
| 30 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 benches | nmod:poss |
| 31 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 benches | amod |
| 32 | benches | bench | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 House | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 benches | cc |
| 34 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 38 hear | advmod |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 Hear | punct |
| 36 | Hear | hear | INTJ | _ | 38 hear | discourse |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 hear | punct |
| 38 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 benches | conj |
| 39 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 38 hear | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 hear | punct |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 House | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 House | cc |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 House | det |
| 44 | House | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 Lords | case |
| 46 | Lords | Lords | PROPN | Number=Plur | 44 House | nmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 benches | punct |
| 48 | with | with | ADP | _ | 50 benches | case |
| 49 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 benches | amod |
| 50 | benches | bench | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 House | nmod |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 members | cc |
| 52 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 benches | conj |
| 53 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 55 chosen | nsubj:pass |
| 54 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 55 chosen | aux:pass |
| 55 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 52 members | acl:relcl |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 voted | punct |
| 57 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 58 voted | advmod |
| 58 | voted | vote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 55 chosen | conj |
| 59 | in | in | ADP | _ | 58 voted | compound:prt |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=assert, polarity=none, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Both | two parts | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | the US Congress | the House of Representatives and the Senate | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | present | the UK Parliament | the elected House of Commons | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient | ||||
| 4 | elect | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | hear in a quote | infinitive | the UK Parliament not said here | loud property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | choose | present · passive | members | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 7 | not vote in | participle | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:2.
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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×6. 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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