Laws, voting and how a country is run, sentence 7
The most basic rules of how a country is run are written in its constitution.
Who acts: country · What happens: run, write, constitute · To what, where: country, basic rules, constitution
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 (country), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rules | det |
| 2 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 basic | advmod |
| 3 | basic | basic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rules | amod |
| 4 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 written | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 run | mark |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 run | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 country | det |
| 8 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 run | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 run | aux:pass |
| 10 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 rules | acl |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 written | aux:pass |
| 12 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 constitution | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 constitution | nmod:poss |
| 15 | constitution | constitution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 written | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 written | 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 | run | present · passive | a country | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | write | present · passive | the basic rules | country's constitution | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in constitution=Destination | ||||
| 3 | constitute | country | nom constitution «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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.
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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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