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title: It was reported that in May 2025 Prince Harry lost a court case abou… — The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a… · tree and pragmatics
description: It was reported that in May 2025 Prince Harry lost a court case about having police guards when he visits Britain, and said in a BBC interview he would like to make up with his family. Who acts: Prince Harry, court case, Harry. A sentence of the lesson «The royal family in the news: a queen's death,
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# The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a coronation, titles lost and illnesses announced, sentence 20

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It was reported that in May 2025 Prince Harry lost a court case about having police guards when he visits Britain, and said in a BBC interview he would like to make up with his family.

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**Who acts:** Prince Harry, court case, Harry · **What happens:** report, lose, have, visit, say, like · **To what, where:** type, court case, police guards, Britain, BBC interview · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a coronation, titles lost and illnesses announced» 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 (Prince Harry, court case, Harry), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:045-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-queens-death-a-coronation-titles-lost-and-illnesses-announced.lesson:20
# text = It was reported that in May 2025 Prince Harry lost a court case about having police guards when he visits Britain, and said in a BBC interview he would like to make up with his family.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 045-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-queens-death-a-coronation-titles-lost-and-illnesses-announced.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
7	2025	2025	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	_
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Harry	Harry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
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	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
15	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
16	police	police	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
17	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	20	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	visits	visit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advcl
21	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	BBC	BBC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	interview	interview	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	up	up	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **report** | past · passive |  | type |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **lose** | past | Prince Harry | a court case |  |  | may |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent case=Eventuality |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | a court case *not said here* | police guards |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Patient |
| 4 | **visit** | present | Harry | Britain |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent britain=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Prince Harry *not said here* |  |  | a BBC interview |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in interview=Manner |
| 6 | **like** | would | Harry | a BBC interview *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **make up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Harry *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Harry's family | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

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