--- title: A parliament is a group of elected representatives who debate and ma… — Laws, voting and how a country is run · tree and pragmatics description: A parliament is a group of elected representatives who debate and make laws; in the United States it is called Congress. Who acts: parliament, elected representatives. 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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 (parliament, elected representatives), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:096-laws-voting-government.lesson:15 # text = A parliament is a group of elected representatives who debate and make laws; in the United States it is called Congress. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 096-laws-voting-government.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 parliament parliament NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 elected elect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 8 representatives representative NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 debate debate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 13 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 United United PROPN NNP _ 18 flat _ _ 18 States State PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ _ 22 Congress Congress PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 xcomp _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **is a** | present | a parliament | a group | | | | of elected representatives | tree rules | | 2 | **elect** | participle | | | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **debate** | present | elected representatives | | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **make** | present | elected representatives *not said here* | laws | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset law=Product | | 5 | **call** | present · passive | | parliament | | the United States | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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:world:096-laws-voting-government.lesson:15`. **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): R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Laws, voting and how a country is run, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/96-laws-voting-government/13/) - next →: [Laws, voting and how a country is run, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/96-laws-voting-government/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/96-laws-voting-government/)