Congress and Parliament: how a law is made, sentence 6

The US Congress makes the laws and has two parts, the House of Representatives and the Senate; a bill must win a vote in both, and then the president signs it.

Who acts: US Congress, bill, president · What happens: make, have, win, sign · To what, where: laws, two parts, vote, both, bill

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 (US Congress, bill, president), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Congress	det
2	US	US	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Congress	compound
3	Congress	Congress	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 makes	nsubj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 laws	det
6	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 makes	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 has	cc
8	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 makes	conj
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 parts	nummod
10	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 has	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 House	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 House	det
13	House	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 parts	appos
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Representatives	case
15	Representatives	Representative	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 House	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 Senate	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Senate	det
18	Senate	Senate	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Representatives	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 win	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 bill	det
21	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 win	nsubj
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 win	aux
23	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 makes	parataxis
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 vote	det
25	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 win	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 both	case
27	both	both	PRON	_	23 win	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 signs	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 signs	cc
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 signs	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 president	det
32	president	president	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 signs	nsubj
33	signs	sign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 win	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 signs	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 makes	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	make	present	the US Congress	the laws			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Product
2	have	present	the US Congress not said here	two parts			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient
3	win	must	a bill	a vote	both		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vote=Eventuality
4	sign	present	the president	bill		then	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=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:6.

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): 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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