--- title: Today the law says a punishment should fit the crime; being rude to… — Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the… · tree and pragmatics description: Today the law says a punishment should fit the crime; being rude to a police officer is wrong, but in the book it gets the longest sentence of all, fifteen years, which is the joke. Who acts: law, punishment, fifteen 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 (law, punishment, fifteen 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:19 # text = Today the law says a punishment should fit the crime; being rude to a police officer is wrong, but in the book it gets the longest sentence of all, fifteen years, which is the joke. # 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 Today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 punishment punishment NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 fit fit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 crime crime NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 cop _ _ 13 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 csubj _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 police police NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 officer officer NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 longest long ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 29 amod _ _ 29 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 29 nmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 fifteen fifteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 34 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 appos _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 nsubj _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 acl:relcl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the law | | | | today | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **fit** | should | a punishment | the crime | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crime=Patient | | 3 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | to a police officer; rude *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **get** | present | law | the longest sentence of all | | the book | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sentence=Stimulus | | 6 | **is a** | present | fifteen years | the joke | | | | | 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:084-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908.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): 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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