A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets it all wrong, sentence 18
British judges have worn wigs and robes for hundreds of years as a tradition; in the book the King wears his crown on top of his wig and looks very uncomfortable.
Who acts: British judges, King · What happens: wear, look, crown · To what, where: wigs, crown, book
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 (British judges, 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 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 judges | amod |
| 2 | judges | judge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 worn | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 worn | aux |
| 4 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | wigs | wig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 worn | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 robes | cc |
| 7 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wigs | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 hundreds | case |
| 9 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 worn | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 years | case |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hundreds | nmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 tradition | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tradition | det |
| 14 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 years | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 worn | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 book | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 book | det |
| 18 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wears | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 King | det |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 wears | nsubj |
| 21 | wears | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 worn | parataxis |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 crown | nmod:poss |
| 23 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wears | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 top | case |
| 25 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wears | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 wig | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 wig | nmod:poss |
| 28 | wig | wig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 top | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 looks | cc |
| 30 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 wears | conj |
| 31 | very | very | ADV | _ | 32 uncomfortable | advmod |
| 32 | uncomfortable | uncomfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 looks | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 worn | 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 | wear | present · perfect | British judges | wigs and robes | for hundreds of years as a tradition | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wig=Theme | |||
| 2 | wear | present | the King | King's crown | the book | on top of King's wig | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crown=Theme | ||
| 3 | look | present | the King not said here | uncomfortable property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | crown | King | nom crown «communication transitive»: 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:world:191-a-fair-trial-and-the-wonderland-court-that-gets-it-all-wrong.lesson:18.
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. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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