A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets it all wrong, sentence 8
A trial is a meeting in a court where it is decided, by careful rules, whether someone did break the law.
Who acts: trial, careful rules, someone · What happens: be, decide, break · To what, where: meeting, court, trial, law · 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 (trial, careful rules, someone), 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 trial | det |
| 2 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 meeting | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 meeting | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 meeting | det |
| 5 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 court | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 court | det |
| 8 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 meeting | nmod |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 decided | advmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 decided | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 decided | aux:pass |
| 12 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 court | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rules | punct |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 rules | case |
| 15 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rules | amod |
| 16 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 decided | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 break | punct |
| 18 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 21 break | mark |
| 19 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 break | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 break | aux |
| 21 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 decided | ccomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 law | det |
| 23 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 break | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 meeting | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a trial | a meeting | a court | tree rules | |||
| 2 | decide | present · passive | careful rules | trial | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: agent=Agent subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | break | past · do-support | someone | the law | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer law=Patient |
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:8.
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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