Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908, sentence 10

Serious cases go to a higher court with a judge and a jury; so twenty years from a bench of magistrates, as Toad gets, could not really happen.

Who acts: Serious cases, Toad, twenty years · What happens: go, get, not happen · To what, where: higher court

This is a sentence of the lesson «Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908» 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 (Serious cases, Toad, twenty years), 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	Serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cases	amod
2	cases	case	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 go	nsubj
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 court	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 court	det
6	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 court	amod
7	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 judge	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 judge	det
10	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 court	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 jury	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 jury	det
13	jury	jury	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 judge	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 years	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 twenty	advmod
16	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 years	nummod
17	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 happen	nsubj
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 bench	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 bench	det
20	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 years	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 magistrates	case
22	magistrates	magistrate	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 bench	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 happen	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 gets	mark
25	Toad	toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 gets	nsubj
26	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 happen	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 gets	punct
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 happen	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 happen	advmod
30	really	really	ADV	_	31 happen	advmod
31	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 go	parataxis
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	go	present	Serious cases	a higher court with a judge and a jury	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial_Location
2	get	present	Toad		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	not happen	could	twenty years from a bench of magistrates		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:084-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908.lesson:10.

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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