The King, the courts and the rules above the rules, sentence 11

In some courts in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, judges and barristers wear wigs and robes, a tradition hundreds of years old; a barrister is a lawyer who argues a case in court.

Who acts: judges, barrister, lawyer · What happens: wear, be, argue · To what, where: wigs, courts, lawyer, case, court

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 (judges, barrister, lawyer), 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 courts	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 courts	det
3	courts	court	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 wear	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 England	case
5	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 courts	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Wales	punct
7	Wales	Wales	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 England	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Ireland	cc
9	Northern	Northern	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Ireland	flat
10	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 England	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 courts	punct
12	judges	judge	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 wear	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 barristers	cc
14	barristers	barrister	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 judges	conj
15	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	wigs	wig	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 wear	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 robes	cc
18	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 wigs	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hundreds	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 tradition	det
21	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hundreds	compound
22	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 wigs	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 years	case
24	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 hundreds	nmod
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hundreds	amod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 lawyer	punct
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 barrister	det
28	barrister	barrister	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lawyer	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 lawyer	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 lawyer	det
31	lawyer	lawyer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wear	parataxis
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 argues	nsubj
33	argues	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 lawyer	acl:relcl
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 case	det
35	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 argues	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 court	case
37	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 argues	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 wear	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	wear	present	judges and barristers	wigs and robes and tradition hundreds of years	some courts in England and Wales and Northern Ireland	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wig=Theme
2	is a	present	a barrister	a lawyer		tree rules
3	argue speech: disagree	present	a lawyer	a case	court	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent case=Topic

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:11.

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): R5-strong ×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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