--- title: A court is where it is decided, under strict rules, whether someone… — Police, courts and prison · tree and pragmatics description: A court is where it is decided, under strict rules, whether someone broke the law and what should happen; most trials are open to the public. Who acts: someone, most trials. 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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 (someone, most trials), 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:10 # text = A court is where it is decided, under strict rules, whether someone broke the law and what should happen; most trials are open to the public. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 cop _ _ 4 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 7 advmod _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 decided decide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl:relcl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 under under ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 strict strict ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 15 nsubj _ _ 15 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 21 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obj 20 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 happen happen VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:conj 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 23 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 24 amod _ _ 24 trials trial NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 public public NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | a court | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **decide** | present · passive | | insurance | | strict rules | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **break** | past | someone | the law | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer law=Patient | | 4 | **happen** | should | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | most trials | | | | | to the public; open *property* | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:adult-life:030-police-courts-and-prison.lesson:10`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/9/) - next →: [Police, courts and prison, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/)