A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets it all wrong, sentence 1

Alice has read about courts in books and proudly knows the judge by his wig and the twelve jurors in the jury-box, and then she watches the court break almost every rule of a fair trial.

Who acts: Alice, Knave, fair trial · What happens: read, know, watch, rule · To what, where: books, judge, court break

This is a sentence of the lesson «A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets it all wrong» of the world 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 (Alice, Knave, fair trial), 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 read	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 read	aux
3	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 courts	case
5	courts	court	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 read	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 books	case
7	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 read	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 knows	cc
9	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	10 knows	advmod
10	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 read	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 judge	det
12	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knows	obj
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 wig	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 wig	nmod:poss
15	wig	wig	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knows	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 jurors	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 jurors	det
18	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 jurors	nummod
19	jurors	juror	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 wig	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	24 box	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 box	det
22	jury	jury	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 box	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 jury	punct
24	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 jurors	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 watches	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 watches	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 watches	advmod
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 watches	nsubj
29	watches	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 read	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 court	det
31	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 break	compound
32	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 watches	obj
33	almost	almost	ADV	_	35 rule	advmod
34	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	35 rule	det
35	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 break	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 trial	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 trial	det
38	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 trial	amod
39	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 rule	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 read	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present · perfect	Alice		books		about courts	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about court=Topic
2	know	present	Alice not said here	the judge			by Alice's wig and the twelve jurors in the jury box; proudly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer judge=Stimulus
3	watch	present	Knave	court break		then		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent break=Theme
4	rule		a fair trial					nom rule «cognition 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:world:191-a-fair-trial-and-the-wonderland-court-that-gets-it-all-wrong.lesson:1.

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 ×2. 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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