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title: Who-decides puzzles are chains: a bill needs both parts of Parliamen… — Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decid… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who-decides puzzles are chains: a bill needs both parts of Parliament or Congress and then the King's assent or the president's signature, while a broken swing in the park goes to the council, not the Prime Minister. Who acts: decides puzzles, bill, broken swing, King. A sentence of the lesson «Olym
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# Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★, sentence 3

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Who-decides puzzles are chains: a bill needs both parts of Parliament or Congress and then the King's assent or the president's signature, while a broken swing in the park goes to the council, not the Prime Minister.

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**Who acts:** decides puzzles, bill, broken swing, King, president · **What happens:** decide, be, need, break, go, assent · **To what, where:** chains, parts, council

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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 (decides puzzles, bill, broken swing, King), 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:3
# text = Who-decides puzzles are chains: a bill needs both parts of Parliament or Congress and then the King's assent or the president's signature, while a broken swing in the park goes to the council, not the Prime Minister.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
3	decides	decide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	compound	_	_
4	puzzles	puzzle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc:preconj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:det:predet|HaikuPos=DET:DT:_
12	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Parliament	parliament	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	Congress	Congress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	assent	assent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	signature	signature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
29	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
32	swing	swing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advcl
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	Prime	Prime	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decide** |  | decides puzzles |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | decides puzzles | chains |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **need** | present | a bill | parts of Parliament or Congress and the King's assent or the president's signature |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot part=Theme |
| 4 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **go** | present | a broken swing in the park |  |  | the council and the Prime Minister |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to council=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **assent** |  | the King |  |  |  |  |  | nom assent «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **sign** |  | the president |  |  |  |  |  | nom signature «communication transitive»: 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.

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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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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