Laws, voting and how a country is run, sentence 15

A parliament is a group of elected representatives who debate and make laws; in the United States it is called Congress.

Who acts: parliament, elected representatives · What happens: be, elect, debate, make, call · To what, where: group, laws, parliament, United States · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Laws, voting and how a country is run» of the world 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 (parliament, elected representatives), 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 parliament	det
2	parliament	parliament	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 group	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 group	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 group	det
5	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 representatives	case
7	elected	elect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 representatives	amod
8	representatives	representative	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 group	nmod
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 debate	nsubj
10	debate	debate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 representatives	acl:relcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 make	cc
12	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 debate	conj
13	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 make	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 called	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 States	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 States	det
17	United	United	PROPN	_	18 States	flat
18	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	21 called	obl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 called	nsubj:pass
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 called	aux:pass
21	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 group	parataxis
22	Congress	Congress	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 called	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 group	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a parliament	a group		of elected representatives	tree rules
2	elect	participle					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	debate	present	elected representatives				vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	present	elected representatives not said here	laws			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset law=Product
5	call	present · passive		parliament	the United States		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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:world:096-laws-voting-government.lesson:15.

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): R8-pos-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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