--- title: In the UK, anyone can start a petition on the Parliament website: at… — Congress and Parliament: how a law is made · tree and pragmatics description: In the UK, anyone can start a petition on the Parliament website: at 10,000 signatures the government replies, and at 100,000 it is considered for a debate. Who acts: anyone, government. 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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 (anyone, government), 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:15 # text = In the UK, anyone can start a petition on the Parliament website: at 10,000 signatures the government replies, and at 100,000 it is considered for a debate. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 nsubj _ _ 6 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 petition petition NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 Parliament parliament PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 website website NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 10,000 10000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 signatures signature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 replies reply VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 100,000 100000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 obl _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 considered consider VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 debate debate NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | can | anyone | a petition | | the UK | | on the Parliament website | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent petition=Eventuality | | 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | present | the government | | | 10,000 signatures | | | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **consider** | present · passive | | government | | 100,000 | | for a debate | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | 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:15`. **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): 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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