--- title: Parliament is where elected representatives, called MPs in the UK, d… — Votes, parties and the people in charge · tree and pragmatics description: Parliament is where elected representatives, called MPs in the UK, debate and vote on new laws. Who acts: Parliament, elected representatives. A sentence of the lesson «Votes, parties and the people in charge» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/31-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Votes, parties and the people in charge](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/31-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge/) / 15 # Votes, parties and the people in charge, sentence 15 Parliament is where elected representatives, called MPs in the UK, debate and vote on new laws. **Who acts:** Parliament, elected representatives · **What happens:** be, elect, call, debate, vote · **To what, where:** MPs, new laws · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Votes, parties and the people in charge» of the adult life 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:031-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge.lesson:15 # text = Parliament is where elected representatives, called MPs in the UK, debate and vote on new laws. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 031-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge.lesson # annotation = 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 1 Parliament parliament PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 0 root _ _ 4 elected elect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ _ 5 representatives representative NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 8 MPs mp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 xcomp _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 debate debate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 vote vote VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Parliament | | | | | where *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **elect** | participle | | | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **call** | participle | elected representatives *not said here* | MPs in the UK | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **debate** | present | elected representatives | | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **vote** | present | elected representatives *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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:031-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge.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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