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title: A free country gives people many freedoms, like speaking and voting,… — Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness · tree and pragmatics
description: A free country gives people many freedoms, like speaking and voting, but freedom still has limits set by law. Who acts: free country, freedom. A sentence of the lesson «Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness, sentence 20

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A free country gives people many freedoms, like speaking and voting, but freedom still has limits set by law.

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**Who acts:** free country, freedom · **What happens:** give, speak, have, set · **To what, where:** many freedoms, people, limits · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (free country, freedom), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:033-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness.lesson:20
# text = A free country gives people many freedoms, like speaking and voting, but freedom still has limits set by law.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 033-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness.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	3	det	_	_
2	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	iobj	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	freedoms	freedom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	voting	voting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	still	still	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	limits	limit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | a free country | many freedoms | people |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient freedom=Theme |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | present | freedom | limits |  |  | still |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limit=Patient |
| 4 | **set** | participle |  | limits *not said here* |  |  |  | by law | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by law=Destination |

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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.

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**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/).

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