--- title: When the Commons and the Lords disagree, a bill goes back and forth… — Congress and Parliament: how a law is made · tree and pragmatics description: When the Commons and the Lords disagree, a bill goes back and forth until they agree; this is called parliamentary ping-pong, and the elected Commons usually gets its way in the end. Who acts: Commons, bill, Lords, elected Commons. 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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 (Commons, bill, Lords, elected Commons), 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:13 # text = When the Commons and the Lords disagree, a bill goes back and forth until they agree; this is called parliamentary ping-pong, and the elected Commons usually gets its way in the end. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 7 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Commons common NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Lords Lords PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 7 disagree disagree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 bill bill NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 back back ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 forth forth ADV RB _ 12 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:advmod 15 until until SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 agree agree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advcl 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 22 parliamentary parliamentary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:amod 23 ping ping NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 xcomp _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ _ 25 pong pong NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 flat _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=21:cc 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 elected elect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 amod _ _ 30 Commons common PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 31 usually usually ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 33 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **disagree** | present | the Commons and the Lords | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **go back** | present | a bill | | | | | | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | Lords | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **call** | present · passive | | this | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 5 | **elect** | participle | | | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **get** | present | the elected Commons | bill's way | | | in the end | usually *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | 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:13`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×2, 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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