--- title: The US Congress makes the laws and has two parts, the House of Repre… — Congress and Parliament: how a law is made · tree and pragmatics description: The US Congress makes the laws and has two parts, the House of Representatives and the Senate; a bill must win a vote in both, and then the president signs it. Who acts: US Congress, bill, president. 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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 (US Congress, bill, president), 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:6 # text = The US Congress makes the laws and has two parts, the House of Representatives and the Senate; a bill must win a vote in both, and then the president signs it. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Congress Congress PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 House house NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Representatives Representative PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Senate Senate PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 bill bill NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 win win VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 vote vote NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 both both PRON DT _ 23 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 33 advmod _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 president president NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 signs sign VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 . . 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 | **make** | present | the US Congress | the laws | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Product | | 2 | **have** | present | the US Congress *not said here* | two parts | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient | | 3 | **win** | must | a bill | a vote | | both | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vote=Eventuality | | 4 | **sign** | present | the president | bill | | | then | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination | 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:6`. **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): 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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