The King, the courts and the rules above the rules, sentence 10
The Constitution is a country's top set of rules; the US Supreme Court decides whether laws and government actions fit it.
Who acts: Constitution, US Supreme Court, laws · What happens: be, decide, fit · To what, where: top set, court · 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 (Constitution, US Supreme Court, laws), 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 | 2 Constitution | det |
| 2 | Constitution | Constitution | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 set | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 set | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 country | det |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 country | case |
| 7 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 set | amod |
| 8 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 rules | case |
| 10 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 set | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 decides | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Court | det |
| 13 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Court | compound |
| 14 | Supreme | Supreme | PROPN | _ | 15 Court | compound |
| 15 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 decides | nsubj |
| 16 | decides | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 set | parataxis |
| 17 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 22 fit | mark |
| 18 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 fit | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 actions | cc |
| 20 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 actions | compound |
| 21 | actions | action | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 laws | conj |
| 22 | fit | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 decides | ccomp |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fit | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 set | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Constitution | a country's top set | of rules | tree rules | |||
| 2 | decide | present | the US Supreme Court | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | fit | present | laws and government actions | court | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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: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): 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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