--- title: The most important idea is fairness: a person is innocent until prov… — Police, courts and prison · tree and pragmatics description: The most important idea is fairness: a person is innocent until proven guilty, and both sides get to tell their story with evidence. Who acts: important idea, person, sides. 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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 (important idea, person, sides), 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:1 # text = The most important idea is fairness: a person is innocent until proven guilty, and both sides get to tell their story with evidence. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 3 advmod _ _ 3 important important ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 fairness fairness NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 parataxis _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 innocent innocent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 12 until until SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 13 proven prove VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 amod _ _ 14 guilty guilty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 18 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11: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 | **is a** | present | the important idea | fairness | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | a person | | | | | proven guilty *obl*; innocent *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **prove** | participle | | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **get** | present | both sides | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | both sides *not said here* | sides's story | | | | with evidence | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:adult-life:030-police-courts-and-prison.lesson:1`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Police, courts and prison, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/0/) - next →: [Police, courts and prison, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/)