Laws, voting and how a country is run, sentence 5
Power is split into three parts so that no one person can do whatever they like: lawmakers make the laws, the government carries them out, and the courts decide whether a law has been broken.
Who acts: one person, parts, lawmakers, government, courts · What happens: split, do, like, make, carry out, decide · To what, where: Power, three parts, whatever, laws, 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 (one person, parts, lawmakers, government), 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 split | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 split | aux:pass |
| 3 | split | split | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 parts | case |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 parts | nummod |
| 6 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 split | obl |
| 7 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 13 do | mark |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 so | fixed |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 person | det |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 person | compound |
| 11 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 do | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | aux |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 split | advcl |
| 14 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 do | obj |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 like | nsubj |
| 16 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 whatever | acl:relcl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 make | punct |
| 18 | lawmakers | lawmaker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 make | nsubj |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 split | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 laws | det |
| 21 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 make | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 carries | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 government | det |
| 24 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 carries | nsubj |
| 25 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 make | conj |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 carries | obj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 carries | compound:prt |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 decide | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 decide | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 courts | det |
| 31 | courts | court | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 decide | nsubj |
| 32 | decide | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 make | conj |
| 33 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 38 broken | mark |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 law | det |
| 35 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 broken | aux |
| 37 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 38 broken | aux:pass |
| 38 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 decide | ccomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 split | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | split | present · passive | Power | into three parts result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into part=Result | ||||
| 2 | do | can | no one person | whatever | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | like | present | parts = part | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | make | present | lawmakers | the laws | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset law=Product | ||||
| 5 | carry out | present | the government | laws = law | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | decide | present | the courts | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | break | present · perfect · passive | a law | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:096-laws-voting-government.lesson:5.
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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