A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets it all wrong, sentence 12
A witness is someone who tells the court what they saw or know, and they must tell the truth; threatening a witness is a crime.
Who acts: witness, Witnesses, threatening · What happens: be, tell, see, know, threaten · To what, where: someone, court, truth, witness, crime · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (witness, Witnesses, threatening), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 witness | det |
| 2 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 someone | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 someone | cop |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 tells | nsubj |
| 6 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 someone | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 court | det |
| 8 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tells | iobj |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 saw | obj |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tells | ccomp |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 know | cc |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 saw | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tell | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tell | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 tell | nsubj |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 tell | aux |
| 18 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 know | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 truth | det |
| 20 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tell | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 threatening | punct |
| 22 | threatening | threaten | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 crime | csubj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 witness | det |
| 24 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 threatening | obj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 crime | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 crime | det |
| 27 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tell | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 someone | 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 | is a | present | a witness | someone | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | the court | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent court=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see | past | Witnesses = witness | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | know | present | Witnesses = witness not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | must | Witnesses = witness | the truth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | threaten | gerund | a witness | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus witness=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | is a | present | threatening | a crime | tree rules |
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.
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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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