The King, the courts and the rules above the rules, sentence 17

Separation of powers means splitting power between the lawmakers, the government and the courts, so no one part gets too strong; some people say unelected judges should not overrule elected leaders.

Who acts: Separation, one part, people, unelected judges, powers · What happens: mean, split, get, say, not overrule, elect · To what, where: power, elected leaders · 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 (Separation, one part, people, unelected judges), 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	Separation	separation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 powers	case
3	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Separation	nmod
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	splitting	split	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 means	xcomp
6	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 splitting	obj
7	between	between	ADP	_	9 lawmakers	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lawmakers	det
9	lawmakers	lawmaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 splitting	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 government	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 government	det
12	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lawmakers	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 courts	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 courts	det
15	courts	court	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lawmakers	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gets	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	21 gets	advmod
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 part	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 part	compound
20	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gets	nsubj
21	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 means	conj
22	too	too	ADV	_	23 strong	advmod
23	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 gets	xcomp
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 say	punct
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 people	det
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 say	nsubj
27	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 gets	parataxis
28	unelected	unelected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 judges	amod
29	judges	judge	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 overrule	nsubj
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 overrule	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 overrule	advmod
32	overrule	overrule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 say	ccomp
33	elected	elect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 leaders	amod
34	leaders	leader	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 overrule	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Separation of powers			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	split not said to happen	gerund	Separation of powers not said here	power	between the lawmakers and the government and the courts	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
3	get	present	no one part		strong property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	present	some people			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not overrule	should	unelected judges	elected leaders		tree rules
6	elect	participle				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	separate		powers			nom separation «state intransitive»: of=agent

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:17.

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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