A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets it all wrong, sentence 3

Witnesses tell what they saw, the jury listens to all of it, and only then does the jury give its verdict: guilty or not guilty.

Who acts: Witnesses, jury · What happens: tell, see, listen, give · To what, where: verdict · 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 (Witnesses, jury), 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	Witnesses	witness	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tell	nsubj
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 saw	obj
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tell	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 listens	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 jury	det
8	jury	jury	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 listens	nsubj
9	listens	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tell	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 listens	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 all	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 give	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 give	cc
16	only	only	ADV	_	21 give	advmod
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 give	advmod
18	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 give	aux
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 jury	det
20	jury	jury	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 give	nsubj
21	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tell	conj
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 verdict	nmod:poss
23	verdict	verdict	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 give	obj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 guilty	punct
25	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 give	parataxis
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 guilty	cc
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 guilty	advmod
28	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 guilty	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Witnesses				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see	past	Witnesses = witness				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
3	listen	present	the jury			to all	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to all=Theme
4	give	present · do-support	the jury	trial's verdict	then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verdict=Theme

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:3.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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