Congress and Parliament: how a law is made, sentence 4

Every MP or member of Congress represents an area, and their job includes listening to everyone there, even a 9-year-old who writes about a dangerous crossing, or the many people who sign an online petition.

Who acts: MP, job, many people · What happens: represent, include, listen, write, sign, job · To what, where: area, online petition

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 (MP, job, many people), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 MP	det
2	MP	mp	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 represents	nsubj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 member	cc
4	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 MP	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Congress	case
6	Congress	Congress	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 member	nmod
7	represents	represent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 area	det
9	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 represents	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 includes	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 includes	cc
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 job	nmod:poss
13	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 includes	nsubj
14	includes	include	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 represents	conj
15	listening	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 includes	xcomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 everyone	case
17	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	15 listening	obl
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 everyone	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 old	punct
20	even	even	ADV	_	26 old	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 old	det
22	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 year	nummod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 9	punct
24	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 old	obl:unmarked
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 year	punct
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 everyone	appos
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 writes	nsubj
28	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 old	acl:relcl
29	about	about	ADP	_	32 crossing	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 crossing	det
31	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 crossing	amod
32	crossing	crossing	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 writes	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 people	punct
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 people	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 people	det
36	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 people	amod
37	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 crossing	conj
38	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 sign	nsubj
39	sign	sign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 people	acl:relcl
40	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 petition	det
41	online	online	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 petition	amod
42	petition	petition	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sign	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 represents	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	represent	present	every MP or member of Congress	a area		vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot area=Theme
2	include	present	MP's job			tree rules
3	listen	gerund	MP's job not said here		to everyone	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to everyone=Theme
4	write	present			about a dangerous crossing or the many people	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about crossing=Topic
5	sign	present	the many people	a online petition		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent petition=Destination
6	job		MP			nom job «act intransitive»: poss=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:4.

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 ×2. 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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