The King, the courts and the rules above the rules, sentence 6
King Charles is head of state in the UK and also in countries such as Canada, Australia and New Zealand, where a governor-general does the King's jobs day to day and each country's own government makes the real decisions.
Who acts: King Charles, governor general, King · What happens: be, do, make, job · To what, where: head, jobs, real decisions
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 (King Charles, governor general, King), 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Charles | compound |
| 2 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 head | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 head | cop |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 state | case |
| 6 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 head | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 UK | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 UK | det |
| 9 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 state | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 countries | cc |
| 11 | also | also | ADV | _ | 13 countries | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 countries | case |
| 13 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 UK | conj |
| 14 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 16 Canada | case |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 such | fixed |
| 16 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 countries | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Australia | punct |
| 18 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Canada | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 New | cc |
| 20 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Canada | conj |
| 21 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 New | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 does | punct |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 does | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 general | det |
| 25 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 general | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 governor | punct |
| 27 | general | general | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 does | nsubj |
| 28 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 Canada | acl:relcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 King | det |
| 30 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 jobs | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 King | case |
| 32 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 does | obj |
| 33 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 does | obl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 day | case |
| 35 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 day | nmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 government | cc |
| 37 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 country | det |
| 38 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 government | nmod:poss |
| 39 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 38 country | case |
| 40 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 government | amod |
| 41 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 day | conj |
| 42 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 does | conj |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 decisions | det |
| 44 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 decisions | amod |
| 45 | decisions | decision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 makes | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 head | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | King Charles | head | of state in the UK and countries such Canada and Australia and New | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do | present | a governor general | the King's jobs | day | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | make | present | a governor general not said here | the real decisions | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset decision=Product | ||||
| 4 | job | the King | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=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:6.
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 ×3, 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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