--- title: A judge is an expert in the law who runs a court case fairly and dec… — Police, courts and prison · tree and pragmatics description: A judge is an expert in the law who runs a court case fairly and decides the punishment; British judges' wigs and robes are an old tradition. Who acts: judge, expert, wigs. 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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 (judge, expert, wigs), 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:11 # text = A judge is an expert in the law who runs a court case fairly and decides the punishment; British judges' wigs and robes are an old tradition. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 judge judge NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 expert expert NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 case case NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 fairly fairly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 decides decide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 punishment punishment NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 20 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 judges judge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 ' 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 wigs wig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 robes robe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 27 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 tradition tradition NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | a judge | a expert | | the law | | | tree rules | | 2 | **run** | present | a expert | a court case | | | | fairly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme case=Trajectory | | 3 | **decide** | present | a expert *not said here* | the punishment | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent punishment=Topic | | 4 | **is a** | present | British judges's wigs and robes | a old tradition | | | | | 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:11`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Police, courts and prison, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/10/) - next →: [Police, courts and prison, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/)