The King, the courts and the rules above the rules, sentence 12
The First Amendment to the US Constitution stops the government punishing people for what they say; it does not mean a school, shop or website must let you say anything, and threats are still against the law.
Who acts: First Amendment, people, it, school, you, threats · What happens: stop, punish, say, not mean, let, be · To what, where: government, people, you, anything · 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 (First Amendment, people, it, school), 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 | 3 Amendment | det |
| 2 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 Amendment | amod |
| 3 | Amendment | amendment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stops | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Constitution | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Constitution | det |
| 6 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Constitution | compound |
| 7 | Constitution | Constitution | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Amendment | nmod |
| 8 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 government | det |
| 10 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stops | obj |
| 11 | punishing | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 stops | xcomp |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 punishing | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 what | case |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 punishing | obl |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 say | nsubj |
| 16 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 what | acl:relcl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 mean | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 mean | nsubj |
| 19 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 mean | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 mean | advmod |
| 21 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 stops | parataxis |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 school | det |
| 23 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 let | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 shop | punct |
| 25 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 school | conj |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 website | cc |
| 27 | website | website | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 school | conj |
| 28 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 let | aux |
| 29 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 21 mean | ccomp |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 let | obj |
| 31 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 let | xcomp |
| 32 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 31 say | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 law | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 law | cc |
| 35 | threats | threat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 law | nsubj |
| 36 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 law | cop |
| 37 | still | still | ADV | _ | 40 law | advmod |
| 38 | against | against | ADP | _ | 40 law | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 law | det |
| 40 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stops | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stops | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | the First Amendment to the US Constitution | the government | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | punish | gerund | the First Amendment to the US Constitution not said here | people | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent people=Patient for what=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not mean | present · do-support | it | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | let | must | a school and shop or website | you | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | anything | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | ||||
| 7 | is | present | threats | still | against the law | tree rules |
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:12.
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, 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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