--- title: Both have two parts: the US Congress has the House of Representative… — Congress and Parliament: how a law is made · tree and pragmatics description: Both have two parts: the US Congress has the House of Representatives and the Senate, and the UK Parliament has the elected House of Commons, with its green benches and loud "Hear, hear!", and the House of Lords, with red benches and members who are chosen, not voted in. 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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 (Both, US Congress, UK Parliament), 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:2 # text = Both have two parts: the US Congress has the House of Representatives and the Senate, and the UK Parliament has the elected House of Commons, with its green benches and loud "Hear, hear!", and the House of Lords, with red benches and members who are chosen, not voted in. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×6 1 Both both DET DT PronType=Tot 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 Congress Congress PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 House House PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Representatives Representative PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Senate Senate PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 Parliament parliament PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 elected elect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 amod _ _ 25 House House PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Commons common PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 benches bench NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 34 loud loud ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 35 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct 36 Hear hear INTJ UH _ 38 discourse _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct 38 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ _ 39 ! ! PUNCT . _ 38 punct _ _ 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 House house NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 Lords Lords PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 44 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=44:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 47 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 48 with with ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 benches bench NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=44:obl 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 52 members member NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 conj _ _ 53 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 55 nsubj:pass _ _ 54 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 55 aux:pass _ _ 55 chosen choose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 52 acl:relcl _ _ 56 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 57 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 58 advmod _ _ 58 voted vote VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 55 conj _ _ 59 in in ADP RP _ 58 compound:prt _ _ 60 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, polarity=none, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Both | two parts | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | present | the US Congress | the House of Representatives and the Senate | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient | | 3 | **have** | present | the UK Parliament | the elected House of Commons | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient | | 4 | **elect** | participle | | | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **hear** *in a quote* | infinitive | the UK Parliament *not said here* | | | | | loud *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **choose** | present · passive | | members | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 7 | **not** **vote in** | participle | | | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:2`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×6. **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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