Laws, voting and how a country is run, sentence 18
Power is shared between lawmakers, the government and the courts, so that each can check the others.
Who acts: each · What happens: share, check · To what, where: Power, others
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 (each), 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 | Power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shared | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shared | aux:pass |
| 3 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 5 lawmakers | case |
| 5 | lawmakers | lawmaker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shared | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 government | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 government | det |
| 8 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lawmakers | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 courts | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 courts | det |
| 11 | courts | court | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lawmakers | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 check | punct |
| 13 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 17 check | mark |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 check | mark |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 check | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 check | aux |
| 17 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 shared | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 others | det |
| 19 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 check | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shared | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | present · passive | Power | between lawmakers and the government and the courts | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | check | can | each | the others | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=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:096-laws-voting-government.lesson:18.
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 ×2, 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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