--- title: Every US state has two senators, big or small, but in the House, sta… — Congress and Parliament: how a law is made · tree and pragmatics description: Every US state has two senators, big or small, but in the House, states with more people get more members: California has more than fifty, Wyoming has one. Who acts: US state, states, California, Wyoming. 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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 (US state, states, California, Wyoming), 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:12 # text = Every US state has two senators, big or small, but in the House, states with more people get more members: California has more than fifty, Wyoming has one. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 2 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 senators senator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 House House PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 states state NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:VBZ:Number=Plur 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 amod _ _ 20 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 21 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 22 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 amod _ _ 23 members member NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 25 California California PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 27 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 29 advmod _ _ 28 than than ADP IN _ 27 fixed _ _ 29 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 31 Wyoming Wyoming PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:conj 33 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | every US state | two senators | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent senator=Patient | | 2 | **get** | present | states with more people | more members | | the House | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer member=Stimulus | | 3 | **have** | present | California | fifty | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fifty=Patient | | 4 | **have** | present | Wyoming | one | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | 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:12`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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