--- title: A constituent is a person who lives in the area an MP represents; an… — Congress and Parliament: how a law is made · tree and pragmatics description: A constituent is a person who lives in the area an MP represents; anyone can write to their MP or member of Congress, including children. Who acts: constituent, person, MP, anyone. 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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 (constituent, person, MP, anyone), 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:11 # text = A constituent is a person who lives in the area an MP represents; anyone can write to their MP or member of Congress, including children. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 constituent constituent NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 area area NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 MP mp NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 represents represent VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 15 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 17 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 write write VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 MP mp NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 member member NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Congress Congress PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 including include ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a constituent | a person | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | present | a person | | | the area | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in area=Location | | 3 | **represent** | present | a MP | the area *not said here* | | | | | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot area=Theme | | 4 | **write** | can | anyone | | MP's MP or member of Congress | | | include children | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to mp=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:006-congress-and-parliament-how-a-law-is-made.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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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