--- title: Members of the House of Lords, called peers, are appointed, not elec… — Congress and Parliament: how a law is made · tree and pragmatics description: Members of the House of Lords, called peers, are appointed, not elected, often as experts or long-serving politicians; they can send a bill back with changes but cannot block the Commons forever. Who acts: Members. 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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 (Members), 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:8 # text = Members of the House of Lords, called peers, are appointed, not elected, often as experts or long-serving politicians; they can send a bill back with changes but cannot block the Commons forever. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Members member NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 House House PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Lords Lords PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl 9 peers peer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 xcomp _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 appointed appoint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 elected elect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 often often ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 as as ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 experts expert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 23 serving serve VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 amod _ _ 24 politicians politician NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 send send VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 bill bill NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 back back ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 changes change NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 34 but but CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 37 block block VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 Commons common NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 40 forever forever ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 12 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 | **call** | participle | Members of the House of Lords *not said here* | peers | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **appoint** | present · passive | | Members of the House of Lords | | | | as experts or long serving politicians | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as expert=Attribute | | 3 | **not** **elect** | participle | | | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **serve** | gerund | | | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **send back** | can | members *= member* | a bill | | | | with changes | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bill=Theme | | 6 | **not** **block** | can | members *= member* *not said here* | the Commons | | | | forever *property* | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer common=Theme | 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:8`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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