--- title: The elected Commons usually gets its way over the Lords in the end,… — Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decid… · tree and pragmatics description: The elected Commons usually gets its way over the Lords in the end, and by custom the King always gives Royal Assent; no monarch has refused for over 300 years. Who acts: elected Commons, King, monarch. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elected Commons, King, monarch), 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:11 # text = The elected Commons usually gets its way over the Lords in the end, and by custom the King always gives Royal Assent; no monarch has refused for over 300 years. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 elected elect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 3 Commons common PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 4 usually usually ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 over over ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Lords lord NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 custom custom NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 20 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 21 advmod _ _ 21 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 22 Royal Royal ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 23 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:compound 23 Assent assent NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 26 det _ _ 26 monarch monarch NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 refused refuse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 over over ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 300 300 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **elect** | participle | | | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **get** | present | the elected Commons | Commons's way | | | in the end | over the Lords; usually *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | | 3 | **give** | present | the King | Royal Assent | | | | by custom; always *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assent=Theme | | 4 | **refuse** | present · perfect | no monarch | | | | year | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: 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:politics:041-olympiad-fair-votes-close-counts-and-who-decides.lesson:11`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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