--- title: The US Constitution of 1787 set up a president, Congress and courts… — The United States: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: The US Constitution of 1787 set up a president, Congress and courts that check each other's power, and it is the oldest written national constitution still in use. Who acts: US Constitution, courts, president. 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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 (US Constitution, courts, president), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:038-the-united-states-a-short-story.lesson:13 # text = The US Constitution of 1787 set up a president, Congress and courts that check each other's power, and it is the oldest written national constitution still in use. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 038-the-united-states-a-short-story.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Constitution Constitution PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 1787 1787 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nmod _ _ 6 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 president president NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 Congress Congress PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 courts court NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 check check VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 17 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 25 oldest old ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 28 amod _ _ 26 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 amod _ _ 27 national national ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 constitution constitution NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 29 still still ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 use use NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl 32 . . 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 | **set up** | past | the US Constitution of 1787 | a president and Congress and courts | | | still | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient president=Result | | 2 | **check** | present | courts | each other power | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme | | 3 | **write** | participle | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | president | the oldest written national constitution | | use | | | 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:history:038-the-united-states-a-short-story.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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: [The United States: a short story, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/12/) - next →: [The United States: a short story, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/)