--- title: A jury is twelve ordinary adults picked at random who listen to a cr… — Police, courts and prison · tree and pragmatics description: A jury is twelve ordinary adults picked at random who listen to a criminal trial and decide whether the person is guilty or not guilty. Who acts: jury, twelve ordinary adults, person. 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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 (jury, twelve ordinary adults, person), 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:12 # text = A jury is twelve ordinary adults picked at random who listen to a criminal trial and decide whether the person is guilty or not guilty. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 jury jury NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 5 ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 picked pick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 random random NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 listen listen VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 criminal criminal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 trial trial NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 decide decide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 18 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 guilty guilty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 ccomp _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 guilty guilty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 jury | twelve ordinary adults | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pick** | participle | | twelve ordinary adults *not said here* | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **listen** | present | twelve ordinary adults | | | | | to a criminal trial; at random | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at random=Theme | | 4 | **decide** | present | twelve ordinary adults *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | the person | | | | | guilty *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **be** | | the person *not said here* | | | | | | 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:12`. **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): R8-pos-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, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/11/) - next →: [Police, courts and prison, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/)