Police, courts and prison, sentence 10

A court is where it is decided, under strict rules, whether someone broke the law and what should happen; most trials are open to the public.

Who acts: someone, most trials · What happens: be, decide, break, happen · To what, where: court, insurance, strict rules, law · 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 (someone, most trials), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 court	det
2	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 court	cop
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 decided	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 decided	nsubj:pass
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 decided	aux:pass
7	decided	decide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 court	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rules	punct
9	under	under	ADP	_	11 rules	case
10	strict	strict	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rules	amod
11	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 decided	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 broke	punct
13	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	15 broke	mark
14	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 broke	nsubj
15	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 decided	ccomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 law	det
17	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 broke	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 happen	cc
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 happen	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 happen	aux
21	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 broke	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 open	punct
23	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 trials	amod
24	trials	trial	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 open	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 open	cop
26	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 court	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 public	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 public	det
29	public	public	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 open	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 court	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a court			tree rules
2	decide	present · passive		insurance	strict rules		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic
3	break	past	someone	the law			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer law=Patient
4	happen	should					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	most trials			to the public; open property	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:10.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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