A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets it all wrong, sentence 15

In a fair court the rules are written down before the trial and are the same for everyone; nobody may invent a rule in the middle to win.

Who acts: nobody · What happens: write down, be, invent, win · To what, where: rules, fair court, rule, middle

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 (nobody), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 court	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 court	det
3	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 court	amod
4	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 written	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rules	det
6	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 written	nsubj:pass
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 written	aux:pass
8	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 written	compound:prt
10	before	before	ADP	_	12 trial	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 trial	det
12	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 written	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 same	cc
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 same	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 same	det
16	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 written	conj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 everyone	case
18	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	16 same	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 written	punct
20	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 invent	nsubj
21	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 invent	aux
22	invent	invent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 written	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 rule	det
24	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 invent	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 middle	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 middle	det
27	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 invent	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 win	mark
29	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 invent	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 written	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write down	present · passive		the rules	a fair court	before the trial		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in court=Destination
2	is	present					for everyone; same property	tree rules
3	invent	may	nobody	a rule	the middle			vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Result
4	win	to-infinitive	nobody not said here					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=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:15.

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): no change. 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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