--- title: Serious cases go to a higher court with a judge and a jury; so twent… — Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the… · tree and pragmatics description: Serious cases go to a higher court with a judge and a jury; so twenty years from a bench of magistrates, as Toad gets, could not really happen. Who acts: Serious cases, Toad, twenty years. 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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 (Serious cases, Toad, twenty years), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:084-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908.lesson:10 # text = Serious cases go to a higher court with a judge and a jury; so twenty years from a bench of magistrates, as Toad gets, could not really happen. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 084-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908.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 Serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 cases case NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 higher high ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 amod _ _ 7 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 judge judge NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 jury jury NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 bench bench NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 magistrates magistrate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 24 as as SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 Toad toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 30 really really ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 happen happen VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | Serious cases | | | a higher court with a judge and a jury | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **get** | present | Toad | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **not** **happen** | could | twenty years from a bench of magistrates | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:084-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908.lesson:10`. **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. 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