--- title: Every country has laws, rules everyone must follow, and people whose… — Police, courts and prison · tree and pragmatics description: Every country has laws, rules everyone must follow, and people whose job is to keep them: the police catch and question suspects, courts decide fairly whether someone broke the law, and prison is the punishment for the most serious crimes. Who acts: country, everyone, job, police. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country, everyone, job, police), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:030-police-courts-and-prison.lesson:0 # text = Every country has laws, rules everyone must follow, and people whose job is to keep them: the police catch and question suspects, courts decide fairly whether someone broke the law, and prison is the punishment for the most serious crimes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 030-police-courts-and-prison.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 9 nsubj _ _ 8 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 13 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl:relcl _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:det 21 police police NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 catch catch NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 suspects suspect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 courts court NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:conj 28 decide decide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 29 fairly fairly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:advmod 30 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 32 nsubj _ _ 32 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 ccomp _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 37 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 punishment punishment NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 41 for for ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 43 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 44 advmod _ _ 44 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 crimes crime NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nmod _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **have** | present | every country | laws and rules and people | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Patient | | 2 | **follow** | must | everyone | rules *not said here* | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | job | | | | | keep *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **catch** | | the police | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **decide** | present | catch suspects | | | | | fairly *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **break** | past | someone | the law | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer law=Patient | | 7 | **is a** | present | prison | the punishment | | | | for the serious crimes | tree rules | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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