Laws, voting and how a country is run, sentence 4
A plan for a new law is called a bill; it becomes a law only after enough of them vote for it.
Who acts: plan · What happens: call, become, vote · To what, where: plan, law · 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 (plan), 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 plan | det |
| 2 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 law | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 law | det |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 law | amod |
| 6 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 plan | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 called | aux:pass |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bill | det |
| 10 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | xcomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 becomes | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 becomes | nsubj |
| 13 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 called | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 law | det |
| 15 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 becomes | xcomp |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 vote | advmod |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 18 enough | case |
| 18 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 law | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 enough | nmod |
| 21 | vote | vote | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 enough | parataxis |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 vote | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | 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 speech: assert | present · passive | a plan for a new law | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | become | present | plan | a law after enough of laws | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | vote | present | for plan | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for it=Goal |
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:4.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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