The King, the courts and the rules above the rules, sentence 0

In the UK the King signs every law Parliament passes, and opens Parliament by reading a speech from a golden throne, but the words and the choices belong to the people the voters elected; he signs because that is the custom, and he never says which party he likes.

Who acts: King, Parliament, words, voters, that · What happens: sign, pass, open, read, belong, elect · To what, where: law, UK, Parliament, speech, golden throne, people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The King, the courts and the rules above the rules» of the politics 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 (King, Parliament, words, voters), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 UK	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 UK	det
3	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 signs	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 signs	nsubj
6	signs	sign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 passes	det
8	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 signs	obj
9	Parliament	parliament	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 passes	nsubj
10	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 law	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 opens	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 opens	cc
13	opens	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 signs	conj
14	Parliament	parliament	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 opens	obj
15	by	by	SCONJ	_	16 reading	mark
16	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 opens	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 speech	det
18	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 reading	obj
19	from	from	ADP	_	22 throne	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 throne	det
21	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 throne	amod
22	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 speech	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 belong	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 belong	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 words	det
26	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 belong	nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 choices	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 choices	det
29	choices	choice	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 words	conj
30	belong	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 signs	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 people	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 people	det
33	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 belong	obl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 voters	det
35	voters	voter	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 elected	nsubj
36	elected	elect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 people	acl:relcl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 signs	punct
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 signs	nsubj
39	signs	sign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 signs	conj
40	because	because	SCONJ	_	44 custom	mark
41	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 custom	nsubj
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 custom	cop
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 custom	det
44	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 signs	advcl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 says	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 says	cc
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 says	nsubj
48	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	49 says	advmod
49	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 signs	conj
50	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	51 party	det
51	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 likes	obj
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 likes	nsubj
53	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 says	ccomp
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 signs	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sign	present	the King	law	the UK		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent law=Theme in uk=Destination
2	pass	present	Parliament	law not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme law=Trajectory
3	open	present	the King not said here	Parliament			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location parliament=Theme
4	read	gerund	the King not said here	a speech	a golden throne		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent speech=Topic from throne=Source
5	belong	present	the words and the choices			to the people	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
6	elect	past	the voters	the people not said here			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
7	sign	present	King				vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is a	present	that	the custom			tree rules
9	not say speech: assert	present	King				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	like	present	King	which party			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot party=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:politics:007-the-king-the-courts-and-the-rules-above-the-rules.lesson:0.

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): R3-conj-first ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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