Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness, sentence 20
A free country gives people many freedoms, like speaking and voting, but freedom still has limits set by law.
Who acts: free country, freedom · What happens: give, speak, have, set · To what, where: many freedoms, people, limits · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness» 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 (free country, freedom), 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 | 3 country | det |
| 2 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 country | amod |
| 3 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gives | nsubj |
| 4 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gives | iobj |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 freedoms | amod |
| 7 | freedoms | freedom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gives | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 speaking | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 speaking | case |
| 10 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 gives | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 voting | cc |
| 12 | voting | voting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 speaking | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 has | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 has | cc |
| 15 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 has | nsubj |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 has | advmod |
| 17 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gives | conj |
| 18 | limits | limit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 has | obj |
| 19 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 limits | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 law | case |
| 21 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 set | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | a free country | many freedoms | people | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient freedom=Theme | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | have | present | freedom | limits | still | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limit=Patient | |||
| 4 | set | participle | limits not said here | by law | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by law=Destination |
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:033-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness.lesson:20.
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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