Laws, voting and how a country is run, sentence 19
Courts and judges decide whether a law has been broken and must listen fairly to both sides.
Who acts: Courts · What happens: decide, break, listen · To what, where: law · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Courts), 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 | Courts | court | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 decide | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 judges | cc |
| 3 | judges | judge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Courts | conj |
| 4 | decide | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 10 broken | mark |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 law | det |
| 7 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 broken | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 broken | aux:pass |
| 10 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 decide | ccomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 listen | cc |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 listen | aux |
| 13 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 broken | conj |
| 14 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 13 listen | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 sides | case |
| 16 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 sides | det |
| 17 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 listen | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 decide | 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 | decide | present | Courts and judges | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | break | present · perfect · passive | a law | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | listen | must | to both sides; fairly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to side=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:19.
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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