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title: After 1215, juries of ordinary people, usually twelve, grew in Engla… — Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through… · tree and pragmatics
description: After 1215, juries of ordinary people, usually twelve, grew in England, so people were judged by their «peers», not only by the king's officials. Who acts: juries, peers. A sentence of the lesson «Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time» of the history course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time, sentence 11

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After 1215, juries of ordinary people, usually twelve, grew in England, so people were judged by their «peers», not only by the king's officials.

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**Who acts:** juries, peers · **What happens:** grow, judge · **To what, where:** England, people

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time» of the history 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 (juries, peers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:068-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time.lesson:11
# text = After 1215, juries of ordinary people, usually twelve, grew in England, so people were judged by their «peers», not only by the king's officials.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 068-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1215	1215	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	juries	jury	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	judged	judge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	peers	peer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
27	only	only	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	officials	official	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **grow** | past | juries of ordinary people |  |  | England | after 1215 |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in england=Location |
| 2 | **judge** | past · passive | people's peers and the king's officials | people |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent subject=Value |

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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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**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:068-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time.lesson:11`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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/).

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