--- title: A judge in a wig gives a punishment. A jury said "guilty". Who decid… — Police, courts and prison · tree and pragmatics description: A judge in a wig gives a punishment. A jury said "guilty". Who decided the punishment? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 30 «Police, courts and prison» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/t9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/) / [Police, courts and prison](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Police, courts and prison A judge in a wig gives a punishment. A jury said "guilty". Who decided the punishment? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** judge, jury · **What happens:** give, say, decide · **To what, where:** punishment · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 30 «Police, courts and prison» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A judge in a wig gives a punishment. ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:30-police-courts-and-prison:t9:1 # text = A judge in a wig gives a punishment. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 judge judge NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 wig wig NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 punishment punishment NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present | a judge in a wig | a punishment | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent punishment=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. *Sentence 2:* A jury said "guilty". ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:30-police-courts-and-prison:t9:2 # text = A jury said "guilty". 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 jury jury NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 guilty guilty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a jury | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | *Sentence 3:* Who decided the punishment? ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:30-police-courts-and-prison:t9:3 # text = Who decided the punishment? 1 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 2 nsubj _ _ 2 decided decide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 punishment punishment NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **decide** | past | | the punishment | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent punishment=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} The jury ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:30-police-courts-and-prison:t9:o1:1 # text = The jury 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 jury jury NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} The victim ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:30-police-courts-and-prison:t9:o2:1 # text = The victim 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 victim victim NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} The police ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:30-police-courts-and-prison:t9:o3:1 # text = The police 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 police police NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} The judge ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:30-police-courts-and-prison:t9:o4:1 # text = The judge 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 judge judge NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License. - ← previous: [Police, courts and prison, test 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/t8/) - next →: [Police, courts and prison, test 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/t10/) - ↑ back to [Police, courts and prison](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/)