Police, courts and prison, sentence 11

A judge is an expert in the law who runs a court case fairly and decides the punishment; British judges' wigs and robes are an old tradition.

Who acts: judge, expert, wigs · What happens: be, run, decide · To what, where: expert, law, court case, punishment, old tradition

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 (judge, expert, wigs), 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 judge	det
2	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 expert	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 expert	cop
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 expert	det
5	expert	expert	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 law	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 law	det
8	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 expert	nmod
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 runs	nsubj
10	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 expert	acl:relcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 case	det
12	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 case	compound
13	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 runs	obj
14	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	10 runs	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 decides	cc
16	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 runs	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 punishment	det
18	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 decides	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 expert	punct
20	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 judges	amod
21	judges	judge	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wigs	nmod:poss
22	'	's	PART	_	21 judges	case
23	wigs	wig	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 tradition	nsubj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 robes	cc
25	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wigs	conj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 tradition	cop
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 tradition	det
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 tradition	amod
29	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 expert	parataxis
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 expert	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a judge	a expert	the law		tree rules
2	run	present	a expert	a court case		fairly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme case=Trajectory
3	decide	present	a expert not said here	the punishment			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent punishment=Topic
4	is a	present	British judges's wigs and robes	a old tradition			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:11.

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): no change. 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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