--- title: A bill goes through readings (debates), a committee that checks it l… — Congress and Parliament: how a law is made · tree and pragmatics description: A bill goes through readings (debates), a committee that checks it line by line, and amendments (changes) in both parts before it becomes law. Who acts: bill, committee. 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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, committee), 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:9 # text = A bill goes through readings (debates), a committee that checks it line by line, and amendments (changes) in both parts before it becomes law. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bill bill NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 through through ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 readings reading NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 7 debates debate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 appos _ _ 8 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 committee committee NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 checks check VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 line line ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 amendments amendment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 22 changes change NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:conj 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 26 det _ _ 26 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 27 before before SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 30 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 xcomp _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | a bill | | | readings and amendments in both parts | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through reading=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **check** | present | a committee | bill | | | | by line; line *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **become** | present | bill | law | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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:9`. **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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