Who decides: kings, councils, republics and democracies, sentence 19

The US Constitution of 1787 is the oldest written national constitution still in use, but San Marino has older laws from 1600 that work like one, so it depends how you count.

Who acts: US Constitution, San, older laws, it, you · What happens: write, be, have, work, depend, count · To what, where: oldest written national constitution, older laws, 1600

This is a sentence of the lesson «Who decides: kings, councils, republics and democracies» 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, San, older laws, it), 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	11 constitution	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 1787	case
5	1787	1787	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 Constitution	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 constitution	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 constitution	det
8	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 constitution	amod
9	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 constitution	amod
10	national	national	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 constitution	amod
11	constitution	constitution	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	still	still	ADV	_	14 use	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 use	case
14	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 constitution	acl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 has	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 has	cc
17	San	San	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 has	nsubj
18	Marino	Marino	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 San	flat
19	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 constitution	conj
20	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 laws	amod
21	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 has	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 1600	case
23	1600	1600	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 laws	nmod
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 work	nsubj
25	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 laws	acl:relcl
26	like	like	ADP	_	27 one	case
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 work	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 depends	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	31 depends	advmod
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 depends	nsubj
31	depends	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 has	parataxis
32	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	34 count	advmod
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 count	nsubj
34	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 depends	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 constitution	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	write	participle					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	the US Constitution of 1787	the oldest written national constitution			tree rules
3	have	present	San	older laws	1600		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Patient
4	work	present	older laws			like one	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	depend	present	it				tree rules
6	count	present	you				vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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:067-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies.lesson:19.

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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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