Laws, voting and how a country is run, sentence 17
A constitution is the set of basic rules for how a country is run; the United States Constitution was written in 1787.
Who acts: constitution · What happens: be, run, write · To what, where: set, country, States Constitution, 1787
This is a sentence of the lesson «Laws, voting and how a country is run» 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 (constitution), 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 constitution | det |
| 2 | constitution | constitution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 set | det |
| 5 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 rules | case |
| 7 | basic | basic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rules | amod |
| 8 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 set | nmod |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 run | mark |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 run | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 country | det |
| 12 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 run | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 run | aux:pass |
| 14 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 rules | acl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 written | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Constitution | det |
| 17 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 18 States | compound |
| 18 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 Constitution | compound |
| 19 | Constitution | Constitution | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 written | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 written | aux:pass |
| 21 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 set | parataxis |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 1787 | case |
| 23 | 1787 | 1787 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 written | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | 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 constitution | the set | of basic rules | tree rules | |||
| 2 | run | present · passive | a country | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | write | past · passive | the States Constitution | 1787 | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in 1787=Destination |
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:096-laws-voting-government.lesson:17.
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): R7-rel-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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