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title: Oliver's nan calls police «bobbies» after Robert Peel, who set up Lo… — Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through… · tree and pragmatics
description: Oliver's nan calls police «bobbies» after Robert Peel, who set up London's police. Who acts: nan, Robert Peel. A sentence of the lesson «Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time, sentence 7

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Oliver's nan calls police «bobbies» after Robert Peel, who set up London's police.

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**Who acts:** nan, Robert Peel · **What happens:** call, set up · **To what, where:** police · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (nan, Robert Peel), 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:7
# text = Oliver's nan calls police «bobbies» after Robert Peel, who set up London's police.
# 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): no change
1	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	nan	nan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bobbies	bobby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Robert	Robert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Peel	peel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
19	.	.	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 | **call** | present | Oliver's nan | police |  |  | after Robert Peel |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent police=Recipient |
| 2 | **set up** | past | Robert Peel | London's police |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient police=Result |

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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:7`.

**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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