--- title: Whips try to make their party's MPs vote together; an MP who votes a… — Congress and Parliament: how a law is made · tree and pragmatics description: Whips try to make their party's MPs vote together; an MP who votes against their own party is called a rebel, and it happens in Congress too. Who acts: Whips, MPs, MP, it. 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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 (Whips, MPs, MP, it), 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:14 # text = Whips try to make their party's MPs vote together; an MP who votes against their own party is called a rebel, and it happens in Congress too. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Whips whip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 try try VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 MPs mp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 9 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 together together ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 MP mp NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 votes vote VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 against against ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 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 2 parataxis _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 rebel rebel NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obj 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=21:cc 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Congress Congress PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 30 too too ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | present | Whips | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Whips *not said here* | Whips's party's MPs | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **vote** *not said to happen* | infinitive | Whips's party's MPs *not said here* | | | | | together *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **vote** | present | a MP | | | | | against Whips's own party | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **call** | present · passive | | a MP | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 6 | **happen** | present | it | | | Congress | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in congress=Location | 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:14`. **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 ×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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