Congress and Parliament: how a law is made, sentence 9

A bill goes through readings (debates), a committee that checks it line by line, and amendments (changes) in both parts before it becomes law.

Who acts: bill, committee · What happens: go, check, become · To what, where: readings, bill, law

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, committee), 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	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	5 readings	case
5	readings	reading	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 goes	obl
6	(	(	PUNCT	_	7 debates	punct
7	debates	debate	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 readings	appos
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	7 debates	punct
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 committee	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 committee	det
11	committee	committee	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 readings	appos
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 checks	nsubj
13	checks	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 committee	acl:relcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 checks	obj
15	line	line	ADV	_	13 checks	advmod
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 line	case
17	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 checks	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 amendments	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 amendments	cc
20	amendments	amendment	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 readings	conj
21	(	(	PUNCT	_	22 changes	punct
22	changes	change	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 amendments	appos
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	22 changes	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 parts	case
25	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	26 parts	det
26	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 amendments	nmod
27	before	before	SCONJ	_	29 becomes	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 becomes	nsubj
29	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 goes	advcl
30	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 becomes	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	present	a bill		readings and amendments in both parts		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through reading=Initial_Location
2	check	present	a committee	bill		by line; line property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	become	present	bill	law			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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:9.

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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