Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908, sentence 7
So when Toad's trial makes you laugh, ask: what would a real court have done, then and now?
Who acts: trial, you, real court, Toad · What happens: make, laugh, ask, do, try · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (trial, you, real court, Toad), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 10 ask | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 makes | advmod |
| 3 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 trial | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Toad | case |
| 5 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 makes | nsubj |
| 6 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 ask | advcl |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 laugh | obj |
| 8 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 makes | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 makes | punct |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 done | punct |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 done | obj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 done | aux |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 court | det |
| 15 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 court | amod |
| 16 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 done | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 done | aux |
| 18 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 ask | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 then | punct |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 done | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 now | cc |
| 22 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 then | conj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Toad's trial | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | laugh | infinitive | Toad's trial not said here | you | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do | would · perfect | a real court | then | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | try | Toad | nom trial «act transitive»: poss=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:history:084-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908.lesson:7.
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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