Congress and Parliament: how a law is made, sentence 3

A bill can bounce between the two parts like a ping-pong ball until they agree; in the USA the president can then sign it or veto it, and Congress can still override a veto if two-thirds of both parts vote again.

Who acts: bill, parts, president, Congress, two thirds · What happens: bounce, agree, sign, veto, override, vote · To what, where: two parts, bill, USA, veto

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 (bill, parts, president, Congress), 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 bill	det
2	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bounce	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bounce	aux
4	bounce	bounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	between	between	ADP	_	8 parts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 parts	det
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 parts	nummod
8	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bounce	obl
9	like	like	ADP	_	14 ball	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 ball	det
11	ping	ping	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pong	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 ping	punct
13	pong	pong	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ball	compound
14	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bounce	obl
15	until	until	SCONJ	_	17 agree	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 agree	nsubj
17	agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bounce	advcl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 sign	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 USA	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 USA	det
21	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 sign	obl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 president	det
23	president	president	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sign	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 sign	aux
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 sign	advmod
26	sign	sign	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bounce	parataxis
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sign	obj
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 veto	cc
29	veto	veto	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 sign	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 veto	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 override	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 override	cc
33	Congress	Congress	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 override	nsubj
34	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 override	aux
35	still	still	ADV	_	36 override	advmod
36	override	override	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bounce	conj
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 veto	det
38	veto	veto	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 override	obj
39	if	if	SCONJ	_	46 vote	mark
40	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 thirds	nummod
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 two	punct
42	thirds	third	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 vote	nsubj
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 parts	case
44	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	45 parts	det
45	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 thirds	nmod
46	vote	vote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 override	advcl
47	again	again	ADV	_	46 vote	advmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bounce	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bounce	can	a bill		the two parts		like a pong ball	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between part=Trajectory
2	agree speech: agree	present	parts = part					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sign	can	the president	bill	the USA	then		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination
4	veto	infinitive	the president not said here	bill				tree rules
5	override	can	Congress	a veto		still		tree rules
6	vote a condition, not said to happen	present	two thirds of both parts			again		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:3.

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 ×2, 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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