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title: In the House of Commons, MPs (Members of Parliament), each voted in… — Congress and Parliament: how a law is made · tree and pragmatics
description: In the House of Commons, MPs (Members of Parliament), each voted in by one area, debate face to face, with the government on one side and the opposition on the other; the Speaker keeps order and calls "Order!" Who acts: debate face, Speaker. A sentence of the lesson «Congress and Parliament: how a l
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# Congress and Parliament: how a law is made, sentence 7

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In the House of Commons, MPs (Members of Parliament), each voted in by one area, debate face to face, with the government on one side and the opposition on the other; the Speaker keeps order and calls "Order!"

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**Who acts:** debate face, Speaker · **What happens:** vote, face, keep, call · **To what, where:** each, House, government, one side, order · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Congress and Parliament: how a law is made» of the politics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (debate face, Speaker), 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:7
# text = In the House of Commons, MPs (Members of Parliament), each voted in by one area, debate face to face, with the government on one side and the opposition on the other; the Speaker keeps order and calls "Order!"
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×5
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Commons	common	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	MPs	mp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:appos
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Parliament	parliament	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	each	each	PRON	DT	PronType=Tot	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	voted	vote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	debate	debate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:mark|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_
24	face	face	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	opposition	opposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	nmod	_	_
38	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	Speaker	speaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
42	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
45	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=41:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
46	Order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=44:obj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
47	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	41	punct	_	_
48	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vote** | participle · passive |  | each |  | the House of Commons and MPs |  | in one area  debate face | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **face** | infinitive | debate face *not said here* | the government |  | one side and the opposition on the other |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme government=Destination |
| 3 | **keep** | present | the Speaker | order |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 4 | **call** | present | the Speaker *not said here* | Order |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent order=Recipient |

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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.

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**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, R8-pos-agree ×5. **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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