Congress and Parliament: how a law is made, sentence 8
Members of the House of Lords, called peers, are appointed, not elected, often as experts or long-serving politicians; they can send a bill back with changes but cannot block the Commons forever.
Who acts: Members · What happens: call, appoint, not elect, serve, send back, not block · To what, where: peers, Members, bill, Commons · 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 (Members), 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 | Members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 appointed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 House | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 House | det |
| 4 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Members | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Lords | case |
| 6 | Lords | Lords | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 House | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | punct |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Members | acl |
| 9 | peers | peer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 called | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Members | punct |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 appointed | aux:pass |
| 12 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 elected | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 elected | advmod |
| 15 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 appointed | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 experts | punct |
| 17 | often | often | ADV | _ | 19 experts | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 experts | case |
| 19 | experts | expert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 appointed | obl |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 politicians | cc |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 politicians | amod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 long | punct |
| 23 | serving | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 politicians | amod |
| 24 | politicians | politician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 experts | conj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 send | punct |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 send | nsubj |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 send | aux |
| 28 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 appointed | parataxis |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 bill | det |
| 30 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 send | obj |
| 31 | back | back | ADV | _ | 28 send | advmod |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 changes | case |
| 33 | changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 send | obl |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 block | cc |
| 35 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 block | aux |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 block | advmod |
| 37 | block | block | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 send | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Commons | det |
| 39 | Commons | common | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 block | obj |
| 40 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 37 block | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 appointed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | Members of the House of Lords not said here | peers | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | appoint | present · passive | Members of the House of Lords | as experts or long serving politicians | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as expert=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | not elect | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | serve | gerund | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | send back | can | members = member | a bill | with changes | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bill=Theme | |||
| 6 | not block | can | members = member not said here | the Commons | forever property | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer common=Theme |
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:8.
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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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