A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets it all wrong, sentence 9
In England and Wales a jury in a serious criminal trial is twelve ordinary adults; in Scotland it is fifteen.
Who acts: jury · What happens: be · To what, where: twelve ordinary adults, England, fifteen, Scotland
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 (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 England | case |
| 2 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 adults | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Wales | cc |
| 4 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 England | conj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 jury | det |
| 6 | jury | jury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 adults | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 trial | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 trial | det |
| 9 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 trial | amod |
| 10 | criminal | criminal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 trial | amod |
| 11 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jury | nmod |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 adults | cop |
| 13 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 adults | nummod |
| 14 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 adults | amod |
| 15 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 adults | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Scotland | case |
| 18 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 fifteen | obl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fifteen | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 fifteen | cop |
| 21 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 adults | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 adults | 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 | is a | present | a jury in a serious criminal trial | twelve ordinary adults | England and Wales | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | jury | fifteen | Scotland | tree rules |
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:9.
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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