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title: Ascertain the proportion of each chamber of Congress whose assent is… — Congress and Parliament: how a law is… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the proportion of each chamber of Congress whose assent is requisite for the overriding of a presidential veto. Exam question 2 of lesson 6 «Congress and Parliament: how a law is made» of the politics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question 
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# Exam question 2 · Congress and Parliament: how a law is made

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Ascertain the proportion of each chamber of Congress whose assent is requisite for the overriding of a presidential veto.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, assent, requisite · **What happens:** ascertain, be, override, assent · **To what, where:** proportion, requisite

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 6 «Congress and Parliament: how a law is made» of the politics course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/politics/6-congress-and-parliament-how-a-law-is-made/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:6-congress-and-parliament-how-a-law-is-made:e2:1
# text = Ascertain the proportion of each chamber of Congress whose assent is requisite for the overriding of a presidential veto.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	proportion	proportion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Congress	Congress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	assent	assent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	requisite	requisite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	overriding	override	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	presidential	presidential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	veto	veto	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the proportion and requisite |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proportion=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present | requisite's assent | requisite |  |  |  | of each chamber of Congress | tree rules |
| 3 | **override** | gerund | requisite *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of a presidential veto | tree rules |
| 4 | **assent** |  | requisite |  |  |  |  |  | nom assent «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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One-third

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:6-congress-and-parliament-how-a-law-is-made:e2:o1:1
# text = One-third
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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One-half

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:6-congress-and-parliament-how-a-law-is-made:e2:o2:1
# text = One-half
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	1	appos	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Two-thirds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:6-congress-and-parliament-how-a-law-is-made:e2:o3:1
# text = Two-thirds
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	thirds	third	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Three-quarters

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:6-congress-and-parliament-how-a-law-is-made:e2:o4:1
# text = Three-quarters
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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