--- title: A bill can bounce between the two parts like a ping-pong ball until… — Congress and Parliament: how a law is made · tree and pragmatics description: A bill can bounce between the two parts like a ping-pong ball until they agree; in the USA the president can then sign it or veto it, and Congress can still override a veto if two-thirds of both parts vote again. Who acts: bill, parts, president, Congress. 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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 (bill, parts, president, Congress), 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:3 # text = A bill can bounce between the two parts like a ping-pong ball until they agree; in the USA the president can then sign it or veto it, and Congress can still override a veto if two-thirds of both parts vote again. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bill bill NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 bounce bounce VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 between between ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 9 like like ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 11 ping ping NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:compound 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 pong pong NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 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 4 advcl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 president president NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nsubj 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 26 advmod _ _ 26 sign sign VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 veto veto VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 Congress Congress PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 34 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 still still ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 override override VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 veto veto NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 if if SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 40 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 42 nummod _ _ 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ _ 42 thirds third NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 nsubj _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 45 det _ _ 45 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nmod _ _ 46 vote vote VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 47 again again ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **bounce** | can | a bill | | | the two parts | | like a pong ball | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between part=Trajectory | | 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | parts *= part* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sign** | can | the president | bill | | the USA | then | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination | | 4 | **veto** | infinitive | the president *not said here* | bill | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **override** | can | Congress | a veto | | | still | | tree rules | | 6 | **vote** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | two thirds of both parts | | | | again | | 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:3`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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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