Police, courts and prison, sentence 0
Every country has laws, rules everyone must follow, and people whose job is to keep them: the police catch and question suspects, courts decide fairly whether someone broke the law, and prison is the punishment for the most serious crimes.
Who acts: country, everyone, job, police, catch suspects, someone · What happens: have, follow, be, catch, decide, break · To what, where: laws, rules, law, punishment · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Police, courts and prison» of the adult life 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 (country, everyone, job, police), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 country | det |
| 2 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 rules | punct |
| 6 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 laws | conj |
| 7 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 follow | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 follow | aux |
| 9 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 rules | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 people | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 people | cc |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 laws | conj |
| 13 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 14 job | nmod:poss |
| 14 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 keep | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 keep | cop |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 keep | mark |
| 17 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 people | acl:relcl |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 keep | obj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 suspects | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 police | det |
| 21 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 catch | nsubj |
| 22 | catch | catch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 suspects | compound |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 question | cc |
| 24 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 catch | conj |
| 25 | suspects | suspect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 decide | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 courts | punct |
| 27 | courts | court | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 decide | nsubj |
| 28 | decide | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | parataxis |
| 29 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 28 decide | advmod |
| 30 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 32 broke | mark |
| 31 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 32 broke | nsubj |
| 32 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 decide | ccomp |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 law | det |
| 34 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 broke | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 punishment | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 punishment | cc |
| 37 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 punishment | nsubj |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 punishment | cop |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 punishment | det |
| 40 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 decide | conj |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 crimes | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 crimes | det |
| 43 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 44 serious | advmod |
| 44 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 crimes | amod |
| 45 | crimes | crime | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 punishment | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
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 | have | present | every country | laws and rules and people | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Patient | ||||
| 2 | follow | must | everyone | rules not said here | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | job | keep property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | catch | the police | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | decide | present | catch suspects | fairly property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | break | past | someone | the law | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer law=Patient | ||||
| 7 | is a | present | prison | the punishment | for the serious crimes | tree rules |
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, 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:adult-life:030-police-courts-and-prison.lesson:0.
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. 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.
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