A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets it all wrong, sentence 2

In a fair trial, the person accused is treated as innocent until it is proved, with evidence, that they did it.

Who acts: jurors · What happens: accuse, treat, prove, do · To what, where: person, fair trial

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 (jurors), 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 trial	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 trial	det
3	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 trial	amod
4	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 treated	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 trial	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 person	det
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 treated	nsubj:pass
8	accused	accuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 person	acl
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 treated	aux:pass
10	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 innocent	case
12	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 treated	obl
13	until	until	SCONJ	_	16 proved	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 proved	nsubj:pass
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 proved	aux:pass
16	proved	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 treated	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 evidence	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 evidence	case
19	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 proved	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 did	punct
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 did	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 did	nsubj
23	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 proved	ccomp
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 did	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 treated	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	accuse	participle		the person not said here			vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	treat	present · passive		the person	a fair trial	as innocent	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as innocent=Attribute
3	prove	present · passive		person		with evidence	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
4	do	past	jurors = juror	person			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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:2.

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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