The United States: a short story, sentence 13

The US Constitution of 1787 set up a president, Congress and courts that check each other's power, and it is the oldest written national constitution still in use.

Who acts: US Constitution, courts, president · What happens: set up, check, write, be · To what, where: president, other power, oldest written national constitution, use

This is a sentence of the lesson «The United States: a short story» of the history 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 (US Constitution, courts, president), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Constitution	det
2	US	US	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Constitution	compound
3	Constitution	Constitution	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 set	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 1787	case
5	1787	1787	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 Constitution	nmod
6	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 set	compound:prt
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 president	det
9	president	president	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 set	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Congress	punct
11	Congress	Congress	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 president	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 courts	cc
13	courts	court	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 president	conj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 check	nsubj
15	check	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 courts	acl:relcl
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	19 power	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 power	amod
18	's	's	PART	_	17 other	case
19	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 check	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 constitution	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 constitution	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 constitution	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 constitution	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 constitution	det
25	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 constitution	amod
26	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 constitution	amod
27	national	national	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 constitution	amod
28	constitution	constitution	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 set	conj
29	still	still	ADV	_	6 set	advmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 use	case
31	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 constitution	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 set	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	set up	past	the US Constitution of 1787	a president and Congress and courts		still	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient president=Result
2	check	present	courts	each other power			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme
3	write	participle					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	president	the oldest written national constitution	use		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:history:038-the-united-states-a-short-story.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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