--- title: A veto is when a US president refuses to sign a bill; Congress can o… — Congress and Parliament: how a law is made · tree and pragmatics description: A veto is when a US president refuses to sign a bill; Congress can override it if two-thirds of both the House and the Senate vote for it again. Who acts: veto, Congress. 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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 (veto, Congress), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:006-congress-and-parliament-how-a-law-is-made.lesson:10 # text = A veto is when a US president refuses to sign a bill; Congress can override it if two-thirds of both the House and the Senate vote for it again. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 006-congress-and-parliament-how-a-law-is-made.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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 veto veto NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 president president NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 refuses refuse VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 sign sign VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 bill bill NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 Congress Congress PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 override override VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 if if SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:mark 19 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 21 thirds third NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 22 of of 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 _ 29 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:det 28 Senate Senate PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:compound 29 vote vote NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:nmod 32 again again ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **refuse** | present | a veto | | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **not** **sign** | to-infinitive | a veto *not said here* | a bill | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent bill=Destination | | 3 | **override** | can | Congress | bill | | | | two thirds of the House and the Senate and vote *obl* | tree rules | 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:006-congress-and-parliament-how-a-law-is-made.lesson:10`. **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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. 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