--- title: A solicitor is a lawyer who gives advice and writes legal papers; a… — Police, courts and prison · tree and pragmatics description: A solicitor is a lawyer who gives advice and writes legal papers; a barrister argues cases in court; getting a lawyer does not mean someone did wrong. Who acts: solicitor, lawyer, barrister, getting. 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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 (solicitor, lawyer, barrister, getting), 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:13 # text = A solicitor is a lawyer who gives advice and writes legal papers; a barrister argues cases in court; getting a lawyer does not mean someone did wrong. # 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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 solicitor solicitor NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 lawyer lawyer NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 writes write VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 11 legal legal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 papers paper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 barrister barrister NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 argues argue VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 17 cases case NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 csubj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 lawyer lawyer NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 27 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 28 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:nsubj 28 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:aux 29 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 ccomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a solicitor | a lawyer | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **give** | present | a lawyer | advice | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | | 3 | **write** | present | a lawyer *not said here* | legal papers | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Theme | | 4 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | a barrister | cases | | court | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent case=Topic | | 5 | **get** | gerund | | a lawyer | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lawyer=Stimulus | | 6 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | getting | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | 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:13`. **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 ×2. **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, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/12/) - next →: [Police, courts and prison, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/)