--- title: The US Constitution of 1787 is the oldest written national constitut… — Who decides: kings, councils, republics and demo… · tree and pragmatics description: The US Constitution of 1787 is the oldest written national constitution still in use, but San Marino has older laws from 1600 that work like one, so it depends how you count. Who acts: US Constitution, San, older laws, it. 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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, San, older laws, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:067-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies.lesson:19 # text = The US Constitution of 1787 is the oldest written national constitution still in use, but San Marino has older laws from 1600 that work like one, so it depends how you count. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 067-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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 11 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 1787 1787 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 8 oldest old ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 amod _ _ 9 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ _ 10 national national ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 constitution constitution NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 still still ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 use use NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 acl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 San San PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 Marino Marino PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 flat _ _ 19 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 20 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 amod _ _ 21 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 1600 1600 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nmod _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 26 like like ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:obl|HaikuPos=PRON:NN:Number=Sing 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 depends depend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:conj 32 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 34 advmod _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 count count VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 ccomp _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | participle | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | the US Constitution of 1787 | the oldest written national constitution | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | present | San | older laws | | 1600 | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Patient | | 4 | **work** | present | older laws | | | | | like one | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **depend** | present | it | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **count** | present | you | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | 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:067-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies.lesson:19`. **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): 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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