--- title: In the US, power is split between the president, Congress (which mak… — President and Prime Minister, White House and Do… · tree and pragmatics description: In the US, power is split between the president, Congress (which makes laws) and the courts; each can block the others in some ways, which is called checks and balances. Who acts: Congress, each. 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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 (Congress, each), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:005-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street.lesson:15 # text = In the US, power is split between the president, Congress (which makes laws) and the courts; each can block the others in some ways, which is called checks and balances. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 005-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det 3 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 split split VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 between between ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 president president NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 12 Congress Congress PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 16 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 courts court NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 24 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 block block VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 29 det _ _ 29 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 acl:relcl _ _ 34 checks check NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:obj 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 balances balance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **split** | present · passive | | power | | | | in the US; between the president and Congress and the courts | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **make** | present | Congress | laws | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset law=Product | | 3 | **block** | can | each | the others | | some ways | | | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent other=Patient in way=Location | | 4 | **call** | present · passive | | some ways | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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:005-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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