Police, courts and prison, sentence 12

A jury is twelve ordinary adults picked at random who listen to a criminal trial and decide whether the person is guilty or not guilty.

Who acts: jury, twelve ordinary adults, person · What happens: be, pick, listen, decide, not be · To what, where: twelve ordinary adults · 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 (jury, twelve ordinary adults, person), 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 jury	det
2	jury	jury	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 adults	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 adults	cop
4	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 adults	nummod
5	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 adults	amod
6	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 adults	acl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 random	case
9	random	random	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 listen	obl
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 listen	nsubj
11	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 adults	acl:relcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 trial	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 trial	det
14	criminal	criminal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 trial	amod
15	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 listen	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 decide	cc
17	decide	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 listen	conj
18	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	22 guilty	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 person	det
20	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 guilty	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 guilty	cop
22	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 decide	ccomp
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 guilty	cc
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 guilty	advmod
25	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 guilty	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 adults	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a jury	twelve ordinary adults		tree rules
2	pick	participle		twelve ordinary adults not said here		vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	listen	present	twelve ordinary adults		to a criminal trial; at random	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at random=Theme
4	decide	present	twelve ordinary adults not said here			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	the person		guilty property	tree rules
6	not be		the person not said here			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:12.

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.

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