The King, the courts and the rules above the rules, sentence 4

Judges are usually not elected so they can rule fairly even when it is unpopular; when a judge blocks a government plan, that is the system working as designed, though people argue about how far judges should go.

Who acts: Judges, captain, judge, that, system, people · What happens: not elect, rule, be, block, work, design · To what, where: Judges, government plan, system · 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 (Judges, captain, judge, that), 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	Judges	judge	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 elected	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 elected	aux:pass
3	usually	usually	ADV	_	5 elected	advmod
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 elected	advmod
5	elected	elect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 rule	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 rule	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 rule	aux
9	rule	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 elected	advcl
10	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	9 rule	advmod
11	even	even	ADV	_	15 unpopular	advmod
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 unpopular	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 unpopular	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 unpopular	cop
15	unpopular	unpopular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 rule	advcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 blocks	punct
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 blocks	mark
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 judge	det
19	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 blocks	nsubj
20	blocks	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 system	advcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 plan	det
22	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 plan	compound
23	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 blocks	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 system	punct
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 system	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 system	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 system	det
28	system	system	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 elected	parataxis
29	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 system	acl
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 designed	mark
31	designed	design	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 working	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 argue	punct
33	though	though	SCONJ	_	35 argue	mark
34	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 argue	nsubj
35	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 system	advcl
36	about	about	ADP	_	39 judges	case
37	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	38 far	advmod
38	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	41 go	advmod
39	judges	judge	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 go	nsubj
40	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 go	aux
41	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 argue	ccomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 elected	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not elect	present · passive		Judges	usually property	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	rule	can	Judges = judge		fairly property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	captain		unpopular property	tree rules
4	block	present	a judge	a government plan		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer plan=Theme
5	is a	present	that	the system		tree rules
6	work	gerund	the system not said here			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	design	participle	the system not said here			vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	argue speech: disagree	present	people			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	go	should	judges		far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:4.

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, R7-rel-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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