--- title: A UK bill that starts in the House of Commons must pass the Commons… — Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decid… · tree and pragmatics description: A UK bill that starts in the House of Commons must pass the Commons and the House of Lords and then get Royal Assent from the King; a US bill must pass the House and the Senate and then be signed by the president. Who acts: UK bill, US bill, president. 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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 (UK bill, US bill, president), 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:9 # text = A UK bill that starts in the House of Commons must pass the Commons and the House of Lords and then get Royal Assent from the King; a US bill must pass the House and the Senate and then be signed by the president. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×5 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 bill bill NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 House House PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Commons Commons PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nmod|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNPS:Number=Plur 11 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Commons Commons PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 House House PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Lords Lords PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 22 advmod _ _ 22 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 23 Royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 Assent assent NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 bill bill NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 parataxis _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 House House PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 Senate Senate PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 40 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 42 advmod _ _ 41 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 signed sign VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 conj _ _ 43 by by ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 president president NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | present | a UK bill | | | the House of Commons | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **pass** | must | a UK bill | the Commons and the House of Lords | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme commons=Trajectory | | 3 | **get** | infinitive | a UK bill *not said here* | Royal Assent | | | then | from the King | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent assent=Theme from king=Source | | 4 | **pass** | must | a US bill | the House and the Senate | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Trajectory | | 5 | **sign** | infinitive · passive | the president | | | | then | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: 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:9`. **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 ×5. **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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