Laws, voting and how a country is run, sentence 3

They meet in a parliament — in the United States it is called Congress — where they argue about ideas and vote on new laws.

Who acts: people · What happens: meet, call, argue, vote · To what, where: parliament, United States, new laws · 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 (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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 meet	nsubj
2	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 parliament	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 parliament	det
5	parliament	parliament	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 meet	obl
6	—	-	PUNCT	_	10 States	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 States	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 States	det
9	United	United	PROPN	_	10 States	compound
10	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 called	obl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 called	nsubj:pass
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 called	aux:pass
13	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 meet	ccomp
14	Congress	Congress	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 called	xcomp
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	18 argue	punct
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 argue	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 argue	nsubj
18	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 meet	parataxis
19	about	about	ADP	_	20 ideas	case
20	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 argue	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 vote	cc
22	vote	vote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 argue	conj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 laws	case
24	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 laws	amod
25	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 vote	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 meet	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	meet	present	people		a parliament		tree rules
2	call	present · passive		parliament	the United States		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	argue speech: disagree	present	people			about ideas	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about idea=Topic
4	vote	present	people not said here		new laws		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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:world:096-laws-voting-government.lesson:3.

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 ×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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