The King, the courts and the rules above the rules, sentence 14
Many countries also wrote rights into their own laws, such as the US Bill of Rights (the first ten changes to the US Constitution) and the UK's Human Rights Act.
Who acts: Many countries · What happens: write · To what, where: rights, own laws
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 (Many countries), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 countries | amod |
| 2 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wrote | nsubj |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 wrote | advmod |
| 4 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wrote | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 laws | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 laws | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 laws | amod |
| 9 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wrote | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Bill | punct |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 15 Bill | case |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 such | fixed |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Bill | det |
| 14 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Bill | compound |
| 15 | Bill | Bill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 laws | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Rights | case |
| 17 | Rights | Right | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 Bill | nmod |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 changes | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 changes | det |
| 20 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 changes | amod |
| 21 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 changes | nummod |
| 22 | changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Bill | appos |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Constitution | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Constitution | det |
| 25 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Constitution | compound |
| 26 | Constitution | Constitution | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 changes | nmod |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 changes | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 Act | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 UK | det |
| 30 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Act | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 UK | case |
| 32 | Human | Human | PROPN | _ | 33 Rights | compound |
| 33 | Rights | Right | PROPN | Number=Plur | 34 Act | compound |
| 34 | Act | Act | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Bill | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | Many countries | rights | Rights's own laws | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=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:14.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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