--- title: Every MP or member of Congress represents an area, and their job inc… — Congress and Parliament: how a law is made · tree and pragmatics description: Every MP or member of Congress represents an area, and their job includes listening to everyone there, even a 9-year-old who writes about a dangerous crossing, or the many people who sign an online petition. Who acts: MP, job, many people. 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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 (MP, job, many people), 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:4 # text = Every MP or member of Congress represents an area, and their job includes listening to everyone there, even a 9-year-old who writes about a dangerous crossing, or the many people who sign an online petition. # 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 ×2 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 MP mp NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 or or CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 member member NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Congress Congress PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 represents represent VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 area area NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 includes include VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 15 listening listen VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obj 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 15 obl _ _ 18 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod 19 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 20 even even ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 22 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 24 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 26 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:parataxis 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 writes write VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:advcl:relcl 29 about about ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 crossing crossing NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 or or CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 conj _ _ 38 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 39 nsubj _ _ 39 sign sign VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 40 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 online online ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 petition petition NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **represent** | present | every MP or member of Congress | a area | | | | | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot area=Theme | | 2 | **include** | present | MP's job | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **listen** | gerund | MP's job *not said here* | | | | | to everyone | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to everyone=Theme | | 4 | **write** | present | | | | | | about a dangerous crossing or the many people | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about crossing=Topic | | 5 | **sign** | present | the many people | a online petition | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent petition=Destination | | 6 | **job** | | MP | | | | | | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=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. 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