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description: If a US president vetoes a bill, Congress can still make it law if two out of every three members in both the House and the Senate vote for it again. Who acts: US president, Congress, two. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★» of the politics course of Mov
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# Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★, sentence 10

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If a US president vetoes a bill, Congress can still make it law if two out of every three members in both the House and the Senate vote for it again.

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**Who acts:** US president, Congress, two · **What happens:** veto, make, vote · **To what, where:** bill

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★» of the politics 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 (US president, Congress, two), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:041-olympiad-fair-votes-close-counts-and-who-decides.lesson:10
# text = If a US president vetoes a bill, Congress can still make it law if two out of every three members in both the House and the Senate vote for it again.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 041-olympiad-fair-votes-close-counts-and-who-decides.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	vetoes	veto	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	Congress	Congress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obj
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nsubj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
20	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc:preconj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Senate	Senate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	vote	vote	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
32	again	again	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **veto** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a US president | a bill |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | can | Congress | bill |  |  | still |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
| 3 | **vote** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | two out every three members in the House and the Senate |  |  |  | again | for bill | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for it=Goal |

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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.

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**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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