Police, courts and prison, sentence 13
A solicitor is a lawyer who gives advice and writes legal papers; a barrister argues cases in court; getting a lawyer does not mean someone did wrong.
Who acts: solicitor, lawyer, barrister, getting · What happens: be, give, write, argue, get, not mean · To what, where: lawyer, advice, legal papers, cases, court · 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 (solicitor, lawyer, barrister, getting), 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 solicitor | det |
| 2 | solicitor | solicitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lawyer | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lawyer | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lawyer | det |
| 5 | lawyer | lawyer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 gives | nsubj |
| 7 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lawyer | acl:relcl |
| 8 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gives | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 writes | cc |
| 10 | writes | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 gives | conj |
| 11 | legal | legal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 papers | amod |
| 12 | papers | paper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 writes | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 argues | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 barrister | det |
| 15 | barrister | barrister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 argues | nsubj |
| 16 | argues | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 gives | parataxis |
| 17 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 argues | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 court | case |
| 19 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 argues | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 mean | punct |
| 21 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 mean | csubj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 lawyer | det |
| 23 | lawyer | lawyer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 getting | obj |
| 24 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 mean | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 mean | advmod |
| 26 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 lawyer | parataxis |
| 27 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 28 did | nsubj |
| 28 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 mean | ccomp |
| 29 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 mean | ccomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lawyer | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a solicitor | a lawyer | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | present | a lawyer | advice | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | ||||
| 3 | write | present | a lawyer not said here | legal papers | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Theme | ||||
| 4 | argue speech: disagree | present | a barrister | cases | court | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent case=Topic | |||
| 5 | get | gerund | a lawyer | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lawyer=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | not mean | present · do-support | getting | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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:13.
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 ×2. 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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